Scholar Quotes

The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

A scholar knows no boredom.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.

When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

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

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.