Best 95 quotes in «scholar quotes» category

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.

If you want to understand a people, learn their weapons. The way men kill one another says far more about a culture than any scholar’s ethnography.

Islam’s all about knowledge, right? Muslims know everything. We seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. We seek knowledge even if it be in China, Yusef, EVEN IN CHINA! And we’ve reduced our religion to fuckin’ academics. The guy who knows Islam best is the one who really hits the books hard, learns his shit. Muslims brag about having no priests but we’re getting molested by scholars. Yusef Ali, books are not Allah. Even a book by or from Allah is not Allah.

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

I had long ago determined that I would devote my life to literary scholarship. Not, let me emphasise, the dry-as-dust scholarship of academe, the crushing orthodoxy to be found in universities, but rather the recondite scholarship that is a journey into the unknown. I refer, chiefly, to those dead authors whose works savour of the uncanny and the marvellous, authors whose unique perspectives are beyond the self-stultifying purview of the modern critical mania for so-called realism. For my part I chose the mysteries, and the hierophant of mystery was an obscure author called Arthur Machen.

I have a warrior as a consort, scholar,” Raphael said at her frozen response. “I recognize one when I see her, even if she chooses to wield the pen more often than the sword.

It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups are welcome to the act of learning.

No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.

Knowledge helps its enemies, but ignorance harms its friends.

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.

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

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.

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.

The lowest sage is greater than the highest scholar.

The lowest sage is still greater than the highest scholar.

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.

It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.

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

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

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

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

There's no crying in the rank book.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

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.

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

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 cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

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.

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.

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.