Scholars Quotes

225 Scholars quotes by 199 unique authors

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
I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want… — John Podesta
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is… — Wendy Kaminer
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness… — William O. Douglas
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ? — Rene Thom
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In all of the history of mankind there has never been a time when we have had a greater opportunity to increase our knowledge of… — L. Tom Perry
This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of… — Stanislav Grof
Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape… — Ralph P. Martin
I don't want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in… — Gregory A. Boyd
Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning. — Henry David Thoreau
Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the… — Steven Chu
There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. — William Hazlitt
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr.
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand. — Herman Wouk
Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the… — Charles Baudelaire
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies… — Robert James Waller
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do… — Jacob Bronowski
I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the… — Huston Smith

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