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Scholar Quotes

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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.
Ahmad Jamal

Authors on Scholar Quotes: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Hazlitt Publilius Syrus Peter Jennings Henry David Thoreau Wallace Stevens Samuel Richardson Christina Baldwin George Pattison Moliere Robert Burton Anthony Trollope Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg Theodor Mommsen Clifford Geertz Kenneth Lee Pike Umar Carl Sandburg Peter Maurin Mary Antin Oliver Goldsmith Xunzi Jules Verne Thomas B. Macaulay Cynthia Voigt Rachel Caine Carter G. Woodson Peter Singer Iain Banks Joan Halifax Steven Pinker China Mieville Frederic Farrar
2.
The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.
Peter Maurin

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

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

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Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
Publilius Syrus

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

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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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.
Umar

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All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.
Peter Thiel

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

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

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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Thomas B. Macaulay

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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
Jules Verne

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One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
Rudyard Kipling

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A scholar knows no boredom.
Jean Paul

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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Wallace Stevens

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Scholars will argue with each other about everything.
Peter Jennings

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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
Xunzi

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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Robert Burton

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Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.
Publilius Syrus

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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
Steven Pinker

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I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.
Peter Jennings

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Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
Anatoly Chubais

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According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
Roy Blount, Jr.

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Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.
Libba Bray

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A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.
China Mieville

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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Kenneth Lee Pike

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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
Henry David Thoreau

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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Carter G. Woodson

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The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.
Theodor Mommsen

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Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg

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I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.
William C. Brown

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You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
Alexandre Dumas

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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.
Diana Gabaldon

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

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Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.
Henry David Thoreau

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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
Iain Banks

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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!
Moliere

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History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.
Christina Baldwin

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

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Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.
Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
Anthony Trollope

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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.
Sam Hamill

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Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
Frederic Farrar

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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Carl Sandburg

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

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A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]
George Herbert

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

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[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!
Joan Halifax