Quotes About Scholar

Artist and scholar, warrior and statesman, husband and father, ?a?rat 'Al? is a traditional model for chivalry, learning, and devotion.

I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.

I am just a history nerd.

I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

Though it is obligatory to hail our leaders for their sincere dedication to bringing democracy to a suffering world, perhaps in an excess of idealism, the more serious scholar/advocates of the mission of "democracy promotion" recognize that there is a "strong line of continuity" running through all administrations: the United States supports democracy if and only if it conforms to U.S. strategic and economic interests.

Every professor worth his PhD should have a fireplace in his study.

If told I am a bad poet, I smile; but if told I am a poor scholar, I reach for my heaviest dictionary.

When you wanted me to spend my afternoons sunbathing on the Lake instead of doing my work, I gladly gave in and became a bronzed glamor boy for your sake, instead of remaining a scholar and, well, an educator.

Oh, he was quite a scholar, Mr. Taxovich.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The summer before his senior year of high school, he took the SAT exam and got a perfect score on the math portion (800/800) and a 1430 overall. Then he took the ACT and scored a 34

In the words of Jewish liturgical scholar Lawrence Hoffman, 'Jews do offer freely composed prayers... But overall, it is the fixed order and content of Jewish prayer that gives it its distinctiveness and that demands the personal commitment to prayer as a discipline.

Among those in attendance at Santa María de la Victoria that day was a Venetian scholar named Antonio Pigafetta

Magellan brought a prominent personage with him: Ruy Faleiro, a mathematician, astronomer, and nautical scholar.

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi produced one of the most exquisite commentaries on Ibn 'Arabi's doctrine of Love. This great poet-scholar had initially been associated with wondering qalandars, a group of outsiders who disregarded social norms and incurred the wrath of the orthodox community.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there; but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book, & ransack every page.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career with work in the 19th century.

A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each experiences something different, and each sees his own picture.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

THERE HE REMAINED for almost two years, cut off from every other scholar or mathematician. The isolation suited him. "In those days," he would recall half a century later, "I was in the prime of my age for invention & minded Mathematics & Philosophy more than at any time since.

The shengren is the single most important concept in Chinese history.

There is no reason why an American scholar cannot by himself or herself develop an adequate understanding of another culture. And I don't find any reason to suppose that the birth within a culture automatically confers understanding.