Scholars Quotes
225 Scholars quotes by 199 unique authors
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Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek…
— R C Sproul
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It…
— Adrienne Rich
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Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't…
— Deborah Harkness
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It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science.…
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our…
— Brandon Sanderson
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It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.
— Unknown Author
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We don't have to become big scholars, we don't have to become big supermen. We simply have to become a humble servant of Lord Krishna.
— Bhakti Charu Swami
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My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice…
— George Steiner
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Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to…
— Janet Yellen
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The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can…
— Donald E. Graham
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The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.
— John Bradshaw
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Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.
— Edward Rutherfurd
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The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all…
— John Drane
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Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est…
— Jane Leavy
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When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West…
— Ben Shapiro
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The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children…
— Charles K. Kao
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The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique -…
— Stanley B. Prusiner
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Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains…
— Paul Bloom
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More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains…
— Paul Bloom
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I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.
— Guy Davenport
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The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.
— Craig Mello
Who Wrote These Scholars Quotes
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