Scholar Quotes

Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

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

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.

[There is] a great book from Ravi Zacharis, a scholar from India, and its called Jesus Among Other Gods. I havent read that one, but I know Ravi really well, and I know its a good book.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

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.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Do not lie to the Scholar.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

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.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.

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

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

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

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

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

Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.

If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams.

Progress is like wheels that never stop

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.

No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.

There's no crying in the rank book.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.

A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.

Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.

The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.

It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups are welcome to the act of learning.

Learn, learn and relearn: become a great scholar.

Those who are fortunate to be educated, must light the flame of fire.

I desire knowledge and wisdom.

Everything is like a wall. Said a scholar to the troll. Bang your head to go on through. Then you'll see, there is no queue.

They make only progress. Instead of revenge, self progress is more safe to downgrade others including enemy.

The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman.