Scholars Quotes

225 Scholars quotes by 199 unique authors

Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys… — Joyce Appleby
America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps… — Norm Coleman
But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether… — Umberto Eco
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the… — Hermann Hesse
To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless, a… — Unknown Author
Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was… — Leonard Shlain
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. — Rodney Stark
One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will… — Benjamin Hoff
We know they have nothing to do with Islam because our politicians keep telling us that, and they are all Islamic scholars. (They are, aren't… — Pat Condell
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. — Richard Hugo
Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is… — Richard M. Nixon
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate,… — Daniel H. Pink
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is… — Charlotte Mason
Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid… — Brennan Manning
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character… — Steven Pinker
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. — Henry David Thoreau

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