Converses Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

— William Hazlitt

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is…

— Henry Fielding

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

“No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.”

— Donald Foster

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

— Samuel Richardson

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson