Quotes About Scholar

Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under the rapidity of the assault of events. What once occupied all our minds and filled the musty meeting halls with the awareness of heroism and destiny has now become chiefly a matter for the historical scholar.

My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.

He was in his mid-thirties and thin without looking fit, and he hadn't shaved for a few days. "Yes?" he said, in a querulous tone of voice that would have been just right for an eighty-year-old scholar. He cleared his throat and tried again. "What is it?

Every time there's an incident, there's a barrage of misinformation, and suddenly some asshole from my high school who dropped out of junior college considers himself a constitutional scholar.

A charismatic bachelor, he traveled with two valets and a pet bulldog. Two tracks of silver hair flanked his wide bald crown. Wire-rimmed spectacles and a nearly lipless mouth lent his face a scholar's intensity.

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

I was a decent student but not a great student.

I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

My best subjects were chemistry and math.

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

intel1ectual but

Eleanor Roosevelt on the changes in John F. Kennedy that led her to drop her opposition to his nomination for president: He has the qualities of a scholar, and a sense of history. I had the feeling that he was the man who can learn. I like him better than I ever had before because he seemed so little caulk-sure, and I think he has a mind that is open to new ideas.

June 10, 2001 Chicago I'm still not sold on the bow tie and have been asking people for their opinions on it. "What do you say, yes or no?" I'd worried it suggested a wacky uncle and felt comforted when a woman at Borders said it made me look like a shy scholar. This carried me through to Barbara's, where a young man defined it as "the pierced eyebrow of the Republican Party." This should probably put an end to it once and for all.

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

I'm a child of academics.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

No problem is too difficult to be solved by a theoretician.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Intellectual: One who knows no craft.

A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name.

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort.