Scholar Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

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

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

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.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

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.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

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

A scholar knows no boredom.

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

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

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

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

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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