Best 95 quotes in «scholar quotes» category

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

One who learns from scholars is intelligent, but one who learns from fools is wise.

Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.

Perhaps he even needs to have been a critic and a sceptic and a dogmatist and an historian, and in addition a poet and collector and traveller and puzzle-solver and moralist and seer and ‘free spirit’ and nearly all things, so that he can traverse the range of human values and value-feelings and be able to look with many kinds of eyes and consciences from the heights into every distance, from the depths into every height, from the corners into every wide expanse.

Scholars view the world from the mountaintop, sages view the universe from the stars.

Scholars are the world's pearls, sages are the universe's diamonds.

Scholars are a gift. Saints are a prize. Sages are a blessing. Enlightenment is our reward.

Scholars are the world's candles, sages are the universe's stars.

Scholars seek, sages find.

The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.

Take away the scholars and all progress will come to a standstill.

The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman.

There's no crying in the rank book.

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

The world is a scholar's classroom; the universe is a sage's university.

Those who are fortunate to be educated, must light the flame of fire.

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.

The lowest sage is greater than the highest scholar.

The lowest sage is still greater than the highest scholar.

The mind is a great scholar. The heart is an extraordinary saint. The ego is an exceptional sinner. The soul is a remarkable sage.

The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alienation and instead develops populism and irrationalism and then calls it anti-elitism. On the other hand, scholars, due to being undermined by the society, find any effort hopeless and isolate themselves into their work. For a scholar, personally, nothing changes because the scholar always is a scholar no matter having someone to share the knowledge with or not, but the true problem forms in the most ordinary sections of the society, which eventually creates an opportunity for propaganda, conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and bogus.

The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day of your life! Time will tell, so you got to persist!

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

Truth is an honest saint; ignorance is a helpless scholar; knowledge is a kind sage.

Truth is a saint. Pride is a sinner. Curiosity is a scholar. Love is a sage.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

We all have so many functions, so many ways of existing. In my own vision of myself, I am a scholar who lives quietly, and pens his little tales, and dreams about a past that may or may not have existed. And that is true, as far as it goes. But I am also, in one of my capacities, like so many of the people you have chosen to associate with, a psychopomp. I escort the living to the world of the dead.

Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for you As for my patron, stand you so assured, As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful words Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir. O this learning, what a thing it is!

When Richard created the Purple Gentian, the talent for ancient languages that had stunned his schoolmasters at Eton had come to his aid once again. While Sir Percy had pretended to be a fop, Richard bored the French into complacency with long lectures about antiquity. When Frenchmen demanded to know what he was doing in France, and Englishmen reproached him for fraternising with the enemy, Richard opened his eyes wide and proclaimed, ‘But a scholar is a citizen of the world!’ Then he quoted Greek at them. They usually didn’t ask again. Even Gaston Delaroche, the Assistant Minister of Police, who had sworn in blood to be avenged on the Purple Gentian and had the tenacity of…well, of Richard’s mother, had stopped snooping around Richard after being subjected to two particularly knotty passages from the Odyssey.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to enquire and answer enquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

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

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not necessarily in his comedies.

It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

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.

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

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

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

Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

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

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