Quotes About Scholar

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

I was always a very good student.

I was a good student in school.

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that's not true at all.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

It's better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation.

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

No one knows better than this accomplished scholar [Professor Kennett] and no one could say more plainly that all the supposed futures in 'prophecies' have nothing to do with the future at all. Oh what burning controversies might have been saved had only theologians known a little more grammar!

A course on philosophy introduced her to a new hero, the Renaissance scholar Erasmus, who "believed in one aristocracy—the aristocracy of intellect," she wrote in a paper. "He had one faith—faith in the power of thought, in the supremacy of ideas." Elizebeth, a smart person from a working-class family, found this concept liberating: the measure of a person was her ideas, not her wealth or her command of religious texts.

the Renaissance scholar Erasmus, who "believed in one aristocracy—the aristocracy of intellect," she wrote in a paper. "He had one faith—faith in the power of thought, in the supremacy of ideas.

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

The scholar whose knowledge is made use of and benefited from, is worthier and more virtuous than seventy thousand worshippers and adorers.

Alcuin was my name: learning I loved.

no puede explicarse cuán grande es la autoridad de un erudito de profesión, cuando quiere demostrar a los demás las cosas de las que ya están persuadidos.

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

A.A. Greg argues, 'To print banquet for banket, fathom for fadom, lantern for lanthorn, murder for murther, mushroom for mushrump, orphan for orphant, perfect for parfit, portcullis for perculace, wreck for wrack, and so on, and so on, is sheer perversion.' Greg is considered by most scholars to be a majer dikhed.

A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.