Quotes About Scholar

The American biblical scholar Bart Ehrman, in a book whose subtitle is The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why, unfolds the huge uncertainty befogging the New Testament texts.

It seemed such a brief while ago that they were all laughing at Professor Nikolayev's definition of a musicologist. Imagine we are eating scrambled eggs, the Professor used to say. My cook, Pasha, has prepared them, and you and I are eating them. Along comes a man who has not prepared them and is not eating them, but he talks about them as if he knows everything about them - that is a musicologist.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

My favourite definition of "Intellectual" is: "Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence."

The gate into Christ's school is low, and these cannot stoop. The Master himself is so humble and lowly, that he will not teach a proud scholar. Therefore first become a fool in thine own eye. A wiser man than thyself hath confessed as much: 'I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy,' Prov. 30:2, 3.

Study may make one a great scholar in the Scriptures, but prayer makes a wise Christian, as it obtains sanctified knowledge, without which it is no perfect gift, but —a gift and no gift.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Of all the human emotions, curiosity is the one least subject to gluttony. Once engaged, it has a tendency to grow relentlessly until in the end the scholar becomes curious about the nature of revelation itself.

For anyone wishing to argue that once things were worse than they are now, the Middle Ages are ideal. It is widely supposed that having gotten out of them was one of the accomplishments of modern civilization. No contemporary scholar, one might think, would make such a mistake in judgment. A one-man multitude, Pinker champions the case to the contrary. "The people of the middle ages were, in a word, gross."31