Books Quote by Tamora Pierce

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

— William Hazlitt

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

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

— Samuel Richardson

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

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

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 good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread…

— Henry David Thoreau

He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance…

— Michael Ondaatje

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his…

— Voltaire

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

— Bernard of Clairvaux