Distinguished Quote by Sally Beauman

“Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just…

— Benjamin Hoff

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

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

“[T]he best historians...take a thorough knowledge of the evidence of their subject and combine it with a sharp intellect, the warmest understanding of people…

— Elliot Perlman

“The most intimate community of all knowledge—the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.”

— Novalis

“extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.”

— Stefan Klein

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

— William Hazlitt

“The most effective apologist is not one who has the greatest academic prowess alone, but the one who has excellent intellectual preparation and reflects…

— Francis J. Beckwith

“Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the…

— Bertrand Russell

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for…

— Terry Eagleton

“To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo