Quotes About Scholar

Native scholar Greg Cajete has written that in indigenous ways of knowing, we understand a thing only when we understand it with all four aspects of our being: mind, body, emotion, and spirit.

Afterward we recited the entire poem together. The bed is lit by moonlight I think it is the light of an early winter morning Looking up, I enjoy the full moon in the night sky Bending over, I miss my hometown We all know that poem is about a scholor who is traveling and missing his home, but on that night and forever after I believed it was about us. Snow Flower was my home and I was hers.

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I was by no means a scholar, simply an interested reader with nothing to do but live and learn.

As one scholar put it, "No one has made more impact on the translation of the Bible into English than William Tyndale.

Se aprende más de un erudito apasionado que de un montón de ganapanes de ardua brillantez.

My views are the fleeting observations of a 'travelling scholar'9 rushing through life in the greatest haste. People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.

Leren is nog geen weten. Er zijn weters en er zijn geleerden. Het geheugen maakt de eerste soort, de wijsheid de tweede.

Alas he had forgotten, he said, that she was a novelist as well as a mathematician. What a disappointment for the Parisian that he was neither. Merely a scholar, and a man.

Connoisseur, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

The home library of an A was more likely to have at least 500 books.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

If I had done nothing more than bring McCabe 's talents to the attention of what has become a world-wide audience--if I had done only this job, I believe I'd have established myself as a force for mass education and enlightenment with immediate and constructive effects on the thinking portion of the population. My association with McCabe has been enough to build a career for anyone. { Julius on legendary scholar Joseph McCabe }

There are some chaps who are no good for anything but books; I plead guilty to being such a chap. —Cecil Vyse

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

I'm a collegiate All-American athlete and earned a master's degree in education from Florida State University.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.

I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort.

If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.

Judea Pearl is one of the most important scholars in the field of causal reasoning. His book 'Causality' is the leading textbook in the field.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene, a polymath and one of the first directors of the library

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.