Defined Quote by Randall Jarrell

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

— Samuel Richardson

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

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

— Donald Foster

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

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

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

Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the…

— Yvor Winters

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

— Anonymous

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 intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world...[however,] they…

— J.D. Salinger