Contact Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

— Henry David Thoreau

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

— Tamora Pierce

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact…

— Carl Jung

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear…

— Anonymous

“A liberal is a noble and indispensable lunatic who tries to make a cosmos of his own head.”

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

— J. V. Cunningham