Scholars Quotations

My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject.

In the spring of 1854, some of my publications persuaded King Maximilian II of Bavaria to offer me, at the suggestion of Emanuel Geibel, a position in Munich with an annual salary of 1000 guilders, to take part in his so-called symposia, weekly soirees at which scholars and poets were gathered.

My mother's parents, Bernard and Rivka Levine, were from Russia and also immigrated to New York City. My mother, Rose, was the elder of their two daughters. My maternal grandmother's family included several scholars and professionals.

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.

Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'.

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

America's greatest long-term influence on China comes from playing host to the thousands of students who come from China each year, some of the ablest Chinese scholars and scientists. They will be the most powerful agents for change in China.

More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains are a myriad of smaller components, you must reject such notions as character, praise, blame, and free will.

Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems.

When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.

We believe that it's important to recognize the extraordinary achievements of these students at the most formative moments of their careers, ... As juniors and seniors, they have started to determine the role they would like to play in shaping the future. The scholars we honor at this year's ceremony are on the path to becoming tomorrow's leaders.

Unity can only come when there is better co-ordination and mutual understanding in the society; when there is no friction of thoughts and clash of ideologies. We should therefore follow the ideals established by the scholars and engage ourselves in virtuous deeds.

We've set the bar to get to the final four and not just get there, but win it all. These girls are scholars of the sport who have learned the game mentally and have the athletic ability to succeed.

The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!

Let the biblical scholars and historians battle it out. It's a book about big ideas, you can love them or you can hate them. But we're all talking about them, and that's really the point.

Let the biblical scholars and historians battle it out.

Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left the body and biology out of their discussions.

Many years ago, I accepted a mission to serve the youth. It all began with the first batch of talented but poor scholars whom we trained for free.

May all the scholars and great souls be in unison with each other and may we tread on the path accordingly.

May you be blessed with that benediction which transcends worldly happiness, and may scholars show you the path !

Only by doing good can one benefit. Those who detach themselves from 'bad' and yearn for 'good',dedicate their lives to god and to the service of scholars shall be blessed.

Only the most technologically savvy universities are able to compete in the field of drug discovery and bioinformatics. Georgia Tech's focus on top-of-the-line technology and research facilities and the attraction of Dr. Jeff Skolnick and other world-class scholars will raise its presence in this competitive market and attract some of the nation's brightest students to join our research team to advance medicines that will improve the well-being of people everywhere.

Only the scholars are capable of judging the limits of a man's knowledge and his true worth.

I dare say there has never been an assemblage of so many distinguished Francis Marion and Revolutionary War scholars outside an academic context in the state. We had some of the top people on the Revolutionary War and Marion involved in the discussions.

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

Car accidents are the leading killer of teens in this country. Teens are just learning to drive and face many distractions, so they're at a very high risk for accidents. We want to help teens learn good, safe habits from the very beginning. Our hope is our Safety Scholars program will help us find the best way to get all teens to hear this important message.

Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to the literature. Teaching in that kind of environment has focused me much more on the real world, how pieces of the theory I know can be applied to real-world situations.

I felt like for the Post-Herald to provide an opportunity to recognize those outstanding scholars was fantastic,

God always blesses all the scholars and great souls with wisdom.

If it goes on view with other like objects, then scholars get to see it and study it; the public gets to come; the claimant, if there is one, gets to know where it is and file a claim. Who has lost in this process?

He is a person of proven legal brilliance and judicial temperament, and he is respected by scholars on the left as well as on the right,

The purpose of developing the best academy in the country is not to sell scholars to larger clubs.

Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.

We look forward to expanding our relationship with Gladstone scientists to help train CIRM scholars and to help expand the public's understanding of all aspects of regenerative medicine,

It has been great fun to find these manuscripts and pull them together into this collection. I trust that what we are doing at the school will make it possible for Juilliard students and scholars to delve into the compositional processes of these great composers and share them with the rest of the world.

Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.

Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard's lines came from onstage improvisations by actors.

That a group of works that have remained together for 200 years should be split up for financial reasons means that any opportunity for scholars to see them has evaporated.

It fooled scholars for quite a long time.

I think most legal scholars believe the South Dakota statute has a very remote chance of being upheld - a snowball entering a warm location in its chance of survival.

Many (academic staff) are outstanding scholars and teachers. We want to help them have a say in running the campus and help them have reasonable career progression.

To lift that pall will require a new generation of scholars and professionals who explicitly reject naturalism and consciously seek to understand the design that God has placed in the world,

Traditionally, most psychologists and legal scholars have assumed that the influences of racial diversity result from the contributions of minority group members, who in effect bear the burden of bringing new perspectives and experiences to the table. This study offers the novel hypothesis that majority group members are also responsible for effects of diversity, and that performance advantages to jury diversity are not limited to white and black jurors bringing different experiences to the jury room and sharing different perspectives.

We've got to get away from the idea that scholars in the Islamic world can do our thinking for us. We need to start thinking for ourselves.

We are especially concerned that senior Islamic scholars will be barred from the UK purely on the basis of media witch-hunts orchestrated by pro-Israeli elements,

To girls and wives always alive and fated; To men and scholars always dead like Greek And always mistranslated.

With his passing ... the Supreme Court loses one of the most prolific scholars and brilliant minds ever to sit on the federal bench,

Through this summit, secretary Rice and secretary Spellings and their respective departments want to reach out to college and university presidents to reinforce a common interest in attracting foreign students and scholars to US institutions. Of equal importance is seeking investment in educating globally competitive US students to work in fields of international interest.

We do receive some financial assistance, but the aspect that makes Golden Apple Scholars so different from other scholarship programs is that we commit our four summers of college to teaching in Chicago and gaining experience.

Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship.

Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized in the same historical period have been given names based on characteristics that have no relation to one another, and thus no common criteria.

Every year, we receive thousands of scholars and experts from abroad, but it is only in recent years that the Chinese have began to appreciate New Year pictures.

There's no question the Bible was a foundational document, ... The curriculum acknowledges that scholars have varying views on this.

Islamic scholars have clearly and repeatedly stated that attacks on innocent civilians of any kind are prohibited by Islam and should be repudiated.

Scholars who contemplate on their thoughts and translate them into actions are the ones who are really great and noble.

Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique steadfastness through thin and thin has something to do with the team's Franciscan simplicity.

Scholars are pleased to meet people who are learned because there is a scope for mutual benefit by exchange of views.

Programs such as the Washington Search for Young Scholars help identify talented children so schools and communities can respond with challenges they need to help them fulfill their promise and to keep these students fully engaged in their education.

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.

Speech emanating from a pure heart and mind of learned men and scholars are naturally pure just like water of a river.

A new analysis released today by a number of prominent legal scholars concludes that the Senate bill would be even worse than the current law, because it would effectively wipe out protections that states like Missouri have already passed,

A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood.

A U.S. government publication should not treat Holocaust-deniers as if they are a legitimate part of scholarly discussions about the Holocaust. One glance at the web site of the Institute for Historical Review reveals its blatant hate-mongering, including articles defending Hitler and alleging international Jewish conspiracies. Such bigots should not be described as 'scholars and researchers,' their organization should not be described as 'scholarly,' and their publications should not be included in a discussion of the writings of legitimate scholars of the Holocaust. We urge the National Security Agency to immediately withdraw the report from circulation until its reference to deniers as 'scholars' is corrected or removed.

As our poll shows, and legal scholars agree, the awesome power of government to penetrate citizens' most private communications must not be held in one set of hands.

This exhibition is not only an important opportunity for museum-goers to experience great works of art that would otherwise be unavailable to them, but it provides the occasion for scholars at Princeton and beyond to experience these extraordinary works firsthand, and to revisit recent research in this critical field.

At ISU, we provide more opportunities for our scholars to further their education and to become the best teachers that they can possibly be.

The morning inspires scholars to work and also those who desire wealth.

For generations, many people have known that Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings, ... The much publicized results of DNA tests several years ago simply corroborate what had been common knowledge. Over the years, certain highly regarded scholars defended Jefferson's 'purity,' categorically denying claims that there had been a sexual relationship between master and slave. Since those 'revelations,' some of them have retreated from their former position of 'It didn't happen' only to insist that the affair between Hemings and Jefferson was an exception. But in fact such affairs, far from being exceptional, were fairly commonplace. That's part of what I wanted to convey by 'the American way' of the title.

It's mostly been a fun project. But I've also heard from Korea scholars and people at think tanks who say it's a useful research tool.

The availability of these manuscripts will provide unprecedented opportunities for scholars and musicians at the school and elsewhere for many years to come.

It just so happened that I was going to be her advisor for the Presidential Scholars program that summer.

The Urban Scholars program was one component of a larger strategy,

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.

I haven't read one book about A book or memorized one plot, Or found a mind I did not doubt, I learned one date. And then forgot. And one by one the solid scholars Get the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.

Holocaust-deniers are not scholars or researchers -- they are bigots who try to hide their anti-semitism behind the mask of fake scholarship. For a U.S. government report to call them 'scholars' gives them the legitimacy they desperately crave but do not deserve.

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

This is our 15th year to have the honors reception. It's a way to recognize scholars at all the private and pubic high schools in White County.

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story.

The chairman requested their views because they are recognized as leading scholars in this area of law.

The commoners can become knowledgeable only by emulating the senior scholars who are more knowledgeable and by following their sayings and teachings.

We need highly educated leaders, skilled in research and analysis, who will undertake a creative approach to defining and solving problems so that we can address the injustices and inequities around our world. On graduation from Cambridge, Gates Scholars are in an ideal position to bring new vision and apply their learning to the benefit of society at large.

The message of love and peace can be spread by constant dialogue and interaction between scholars of various religions.