Best 95 quotes in «scholar quotes» category

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!

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

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!

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.

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

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

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

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

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

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.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

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

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.

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

A sage's lowest wisdom surpasses a scholar's highest intelligence.

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

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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

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.

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

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

A great thinker does not necessarily have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse aspects of thought not previously done, in a powerful and consistent way, despite surrounding ignorance and opposition. This criterion we think would include all prophets and their true followers among the Muslim scholars. He is both a great and original thinker who brings new meanings and interpretations to old ideas, thereby providing both continuity and originality to the important intellectual and cultural problems of his time and through it, of mankind. Thus the brilliant interpretations of scholars and sages like al-Ghazali and Mulla Sadra then, and Iqbal and al-Attas now, deserve to be recognized and acknowledged as manifesting certain qualities of greatness and originality.

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.

A pen in a scholar's pocket is greater than a sword in a warrior's hand.

Approaching the Start of Civil Exams Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar approaching the start of civil exams, my mind grown weary and sad from seclusion with books on syntax and poetic style. All that I knew were the mist-covered mountains and sweet white blossoms of mountain apples that grew in the valleys of my province. But I had been gone over six years busy with studies in the Heavenly City empty and thin despite my work. I showed my verses to an older poet who told me a truth I longed to believe: all knowledge is futile and barren which does not open the love of your friends.

A Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, ‘one who lives at the border.’ In ancient times, this was a literal description. It indicated a person who had left the bustling center of worldly life to go live at the edge of the forest where the spiritual masters dwelled. The antevasin was not of the villager’s anymore-not a householder with a conventional life. But neither was he yet a transcendent-not one of those sages who live deep in the unexplored woods, fully realized. The antevasin was an in-betweener. He was a border-dweller. He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.

A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.

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

A humble sage is better than a proud scholar.

A humble student is better than a proud scholar.

Am I a fraud, then, or a scholar? I am both, of course, as we all are. Half of what I know I do not believe. Half of what I believe I cannot prove. For the rest, I hope to muddle through and my mistakes go without comment.

A sage's lowest wisdom surpasses a scholar's highest wisdom.

A scholar's mind is tall. A saint's heart is wide. A sage's soul is deep.

A scholar’s thoughts are higher than a mountain. A saint's heart is deeper than an ocean. A sinner’s conscience is narrower than a tunnel. A sage’s soul is wider than a world.

I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.