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“Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using Big Words that some of us can't understand ... and one…

— Benjamin Hoff

The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems.…

— Ibn Khaldun

One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and…

— Benjamin Hoff

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

— Emile Chartier

With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them…

— Heather Graham Pozzessere

Everyone is complicated, but when you're famous, you have to be pigeon-holed. By doing different stuff, that's rubbed up in complicated ways against the…

— David Baddiel

I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers…

— Oliver D. Crisp

If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it…

— Elizabeth Olsen

If you are a famous personality, you should talk responsibly.

— Jwala Gutta

And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and…

— Epictetus

I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.

— Alex Jones