Best 95 quotes in «scholar quotes» category

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.

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.

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 an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

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

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.

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.

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

Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A humble sage is better than a proud scholar.

A humble student is better than a proud scholar.

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.

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 pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.

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.

Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement.

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.

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

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.

Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.

Everything is like a wall. Said a scholar to the troll. Bang your head to go on through. Then you'll see, there is no queue.

... for you will never, I trust, disconnect what you may yourselves be learning from the hope and prospect of being enabled thereby to teach others more effectually. If you do, and your studies in this way become a selfish thing, if you are content to leave them barren of all profit to others, of this you may be sure, that in the end they will prove not less barren of profit to yourselves. In one noble line Chaucer has characterized the true scholar:- "And gladly would he learn and gladly teach." Resolve that in the spirit of this line you will work and live.

For the artists the humanists were the guarantors of their intellectual status, and the humanists themselves recognized the value of art as a mean of propaganda for the ideas on which their own intellectual supremacy is based.

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

Freedom is peace. Ignorance is slavery. Enlightenment is a scholar's highest reward.

I desire knowledge and wisdom.

If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams.