Scholars Quotes

225 Scholars quotes by 199 unique authors

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
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. — Peter Singer
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and… — Steven Spielberg
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. — Wallace Stevens
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. — Carter G. Woodson
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this… — John Kennedy Toole
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! — Friedrich Nietzsche
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially… — Gregory Maguire
You scholars, you're in communication with the devil. — Alexandre Dumas
But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a… — Benjamin Hoff

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