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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: Henry David Thoreau Wallace Stevens Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Hazlitt Publilius Syrus Peter Jennings Clifford Geertz Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg Theodor Mommsen Umar Carl Sandburg Kenneth Lee Pike Xunzi Peter Maurin Mary Antin Oliver Goldsmith Cynthia Voigt Jules Verne Thomas B. Macaulay Rachel Caine Carter G. Woodson Peter Singer Iain Banks China Mieville Joan Halifax Steven Pinker Tamora Pierce Ahmad Jamal Frederic Farrar Werner Herzog Peter Thiel Jack F. Matlock, Jr. Alexandre Dumas
2.
The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.
Peter Maurin

3.
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.
Parker J. Palmer

4.
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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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
Werner Herzog

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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

9.
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.
Peter Thiel

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

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

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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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Scholars will argue with each other about everything.
Peter Jennings

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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

23.
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

24.
Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.
Publilius Syrus

25.
I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.
Peter Jennings

26.
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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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
Steven Pinker

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

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

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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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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

34.
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

38.
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

42.
[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!
Joan Halifax

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I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
Cynthia Voigt

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

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But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.
George Pattison

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Poetry is the scholar's art.
Wallace Stevens

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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
Oliver Goldsmith

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I don't think there is any other professional Bible scholar who is more respected and honored [like Frank Moore Cross].
Hershel Shanks

49.
Do not lie to the Scholar.
Philip Pullman

50.
You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
Alexandre Dumas