Quotes About Scholar

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

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

I'm practically a historian.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history.

I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

His locked, lettered, braw brass collarShowed him the gentleman an' scholar.

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

That so many people can derive so much pleasure from such a revolting spectacle," he said to me when he returned home that night, "almost makes one doubt the very premise on which democracy is based." But he was pleased nevertheless that the masses now thought of him as a good sport, as well as "the Scholar" and "the Greek.

He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

I am not a scientist.

This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.

It is, I think, the journalist's vice to believe that all history can instantly be reduced to experience: ("Pierre, an out-of-work pipe fitter in the suburb of Boulougne, is typical of the new class of chômeurs . . .") just as it is the scholar's vice to believe that all experience can be reduced to history ("The new world capitalist order produced a new class of chômeurs, of whom Pierre, a pipe fitter, was a typical case . . .").

Brock Millman, a careful scholar of Britain's internal security measures, makes a convincing case that the government held back men and arms for fear of revolution at home.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.