Quotes About Scholar

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

The spirits can only travel in straight lines," said the scholar.

Why faintest thou! I wanderd till I died. Roam on! The light we sought is shining still. Dost thou ask proof? Our tree yet crowns the hill, Our Scholar travels yet the loved hillside.

Ultimately you will discover that he is, quite simply and without pose, a compound of gentleman and tramp, hermit and wanderer, scholar and ignoramus, realist and idealist, and of many other things as well—in short, a seeker of beauty and a believer in the dominion of reason over imagination.

one scholar puts it, "if a physician cannot identify the cause of a disease, it means that it is procured by the Devil.

The overt sexual nature of the Goddess, juxtaposed to Her sacred divinity, so confused one scholar that he finally settled for the perplexing title, the Virgin-Harlot.

Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust definitely came first.

As the international relations scholar Hedley Bull noted, "mutual nuclear deterrence Ã¢â'¬Â¦ does not make nuclear war impossible, but simply renders it irrational," but then added that a rational strategist is one "who on further acquaintance reveals himself as a university professor of unusual intellectual subtlety."86

A hardworking scholar should not have to worry about money.

The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.

Provost John Mark Reynolds, for a position as professor and scholar in residence that gave me time to write Finding Truth.

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

there is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one's habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the "analytic management of knowledge.

When one meets a university professor of shari'a, one gets the impression of a senior student who is but more widely read than the students he teaches; but when one meets a traditional alim, one gets the impression of someone who knows the actual content of the shari'a by having learned and memorized, in a word, someone with 'ilm or "knowledge.

Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.

I've been subjected to ridicule and derision every day of my life. In spite of which, did I not take courage and boldly present myself at that examination? Yes! Only to fail miserably... In a world like this, where the brazen, the shameless, the evil-hearted alone prosper, a weak and penniless scholar like myself is destined forever to be a failure and a laughingstock.

There's a scholar, he went on, a creature who earns his bread by footnoting a dead genius or sniping at a living one.

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

The next, magnificent step would of course have been to write , but the Stereometria records it as , and so Heron missed being the earliest known scholar to have derived the square root of a negative number in a mathematical analysis of a physical problem.