Scholar Quotes

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.

Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]

But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

I don't think there is any other professional Bible scholar who is more respected and honored [like Frank Moore Cross].

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.