Scholar Quotes

Scholar Quote of the day

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

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

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

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

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

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

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

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.

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

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

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.

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.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.