Scholar Quote by Samuel Richardson

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

— Francois Rabelais

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Anonymous

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

— Randall Jarrell

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 man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he…

— Annie Besant

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Tahar Ben Jelloun