Scholar Quotations

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.

My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.

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.

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.

I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim.

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

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

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

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

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

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

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

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

One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfather was a scholar in biblical literature, and my grandmother was a poet. They planted a seed that grew when I went to college and took some classics classes.

I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense.

Gabriela and Patrick are champions of broad, magnetic appeal. Gianni is a scholar of broad journalistic and literary accomplishment. They represent a worldwide spread Australia, Argentina and Italy.

He had the looks of a leading man, ... He was a scholar and correspondent and he had the bravery of a knight.

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He is a true leader on the court and in the classroom. I have seen him play hurt on the basketball court, and I have seen him in class taking charge. He is a true scholar athlete and a leader and a good friend.

He's a scholar and somewhat of an academic, and has studied our history and America's place in the world, in history, and believes that all the progress of the last century, or a goodly portion of it -- eradication of tyrants and communism and fascism and Hitlerism -- was a direct result of the strength of the United States of America and their willingness to use their strength for good.

He viewed himself as a scholar of history as well as chief justice. He loved American history.

Kyle has been great to have on the team the last four years. He carries a 4.4 grade point average and I love the fact we have a kid who shows you can be an athlete and you can be a scholar at the same time. He does it in both realms.

I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field.

When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

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

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

What I've always appreciated about this church is that the pastors are able to give us a sense of the historical perspective of the scripture for the week. It puts things in context and helps us understand what might otherwise be obscure, giving it contemporary significance. What's so amazing about Rev. Therese is the depth of her knowledge as a scholar of the Bible because of her theological training and focus.

Eliminating Garry Trudeau's 'Doonesbury' on the basis of its competitive score on the comics page is a little like choosing a Rhodes scholar from a group of competitors made up of beauty queens, champion consumers of hot dogs, and three-legged racers. 'Doonesbury' is in a class by itself.

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

The scholar who contemplates intelligently is considered great.

The scholar should, therefore always perform good actions and deeds.

These women were some of the best interpreters of Shakespeare's works. They understood the plays in ways that no literary scholar can understand. So through studying these women, we learn a lot about Shakespeare but also about how women should behave.

The supreme scholar is assigned the best job hence one should make incessant efforts to enhance his knowledge by the help of self-study.

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

Professor Robinson's passionate commitment to socially conscious theater has inspired thousands of UCLA students. She was a great teacher, a significant scholar and a life force for her colleagues.

A scholar is always praised. He who attains knowledge also acquires capabilities to vanquish his enemies.

A scholar cannot sit with an ignorant person and expect to gain by the meeting.

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.

A well behaved and cultured scholar always possesses auspicious wealth i.e. earned from good means.

A man becomes a scholar by the help of self-study and proper analysis of whatever he has studied.

The Renaissance scholar Michel de Montaigne said, 'there is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom,' ... Drama, comedy and tragedy all have their roots in the compelling theatre of life that is closest to us all our relationships with those tied to us by blood.

The Bible is unique also in terms of its effect on individual men and on the history of nations. It is the all-time best seller, appealing both to hearts and minds, beloved by at least some in every race or nation or tribe to which it has gone, rich or poor, scholar or simple, king or commoner, men of literally every background and walk of life.

There was a Rhodes Scholar on my team, Tom McMillan. My mom had a chance to go to college, but she couldn't go, and my dad had a ninth-grade education. They wanted me to have a good education, and I took pride in being a good student.

Snakes hiss; pigs grunt; and bills moo! They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away. Of the traits of ego, pride is the most poisonous. But, the pride of the scholar and the vanity of Pundits are so thick, that it is impossible for them to get rid of these.

I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort.

In the professional societies to which we both belong (American Studies Association, American Folklore Society, Western States Folklore Society), Jay enjoys the complete respect of our colleagues as a razor-sharp scholar and a superb teacher.

Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am a greater scholar than Wordsworth and I am a greater poet than Porson. So I fall betwixt and between.

By getting up early in the morning one also gets more time at his disposal for work as compared to late-risers. Scholar and thinkers get up early in the morning and contemplate.

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

A scholar knows no boredom.

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

So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics and dissenters as cranks.

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

However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.

For the past three decades, William Rehnquist did not simply serve on the bench. He truly loved and revered the court, as only a devoted scholar and student of that great institution could. His dedication was unrivaled,

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!

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

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

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

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

[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.

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

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

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

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

Do not lie to the Scholar.

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

Poetry is the scholar's art.

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

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

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

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

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