Scholars Quotes

225 Scholars quotes by 199 unique authors

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities… — Lyndon B. Johnson
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to… — Amiri Baraka
The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT… — Craig A. Evans
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and… — Charlie Campbell
This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you. — Ahad Ha'am
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. — William Wordsworth
I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have… — Winston Churchill
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such… — William Hazlitt
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why… — Alan Coren
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to… — Stephen Leacock
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars… — Henry Louis Gates
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent… — Lady Gregory
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. — William Hazlitt
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. — Thomas B. Macaulay
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought… — Sun Myung Moon
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. — William Penn
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans… — Albert Pike
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. — Steven Pinker
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. — Basmah bint Saud
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. — Carl Sandburg

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