Quotes About Scholar

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

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

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

the spirit of Heidegger's dictum that thinking and thanking belong together, so do reading and collecting. The professional reader, the scholar, or the pandit becomes the agent of a novel form of concentration: indeed, he not only collects, he turns himself into a collection, a person filled up with knowledge that moves to and fro between internal and external memories.

lately a scholar at Eton, who aroused everyone's suspicions by knowing Latin and Greek [at the Billing trial, the judge made a point of not knowing any Greek, and disparaged those who did]

To lack a constant livelihood, yet to have a constant heart—only a scholar is capable of this.

Paul was the only scholar among the apostles. He never displays his learning, considering it of no account as compared with the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, for whom he suffered the loss of all things, but he could not conceal it, and turned it to the best use after his conversion. Peter and John had natural genius, but no scholastic education; Paul had both, and thus became the founder of Christian theology and philosophy.

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

If the expansion of the LDS faith continues at its current pace, within sixty years governing the United States will become "impossible without Mormon cooperation," according to the eminent scholar Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University—and an unabashed admirer of Joseph Smith and the Mormons.

It has recently become a matter of some interest to the press and to some academic experts to determine whether it is race or class that is the major factor in denial of these children. The question always strikes me as a scholar's luxury. To kindergarten children in the schools of Paterson or Camden, it can hardly matter very much to know if the denial they experience is caused by their skin color or their destitution.

Every cultivated man is a theologian, and faith is not a requisite.

Perlu ramai "intelektual", bukan "intelekjual".

Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.

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

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oil in studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.

Orang Cendekia sudah harus adil sejak dari pikiran

Pendapat umum perlu dan harus diindahkan, dihormati, kalau benar. Kalau salah, mengapa dihormati dan diindahkan? Seorang terpelajar harus juga belajar berlaku adil sudah sejak dalam pikiran, apalagi dalam perbuatan. Itulah memang arti terpelajar itu.

Learned fools are the greatest fools.

Have you read Belondweg?" "I coudn't call myself much of a scholar if I hadn't," he said. He was adorable and he made me smile, but I couldn't let him see.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult...So much only of life as I know by experience...The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.

Is it not the true scholar the only true master?