Scholar Quotes

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tzu

Love, Comfort, Fit

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
Leonard Cohen

Young, Old, Face

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Good, Story, Writer

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

Book, Dead, Read

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Others, Treat, Read

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Positive, Fault, Finding

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

Nature, Best, True

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Raymond Chandler

Attitude, Business, Integrity

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mind, Minds, Leave

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
Publilius Syrus

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
Steven Seagal

Great, Artist, Warrior

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Nnamdi Azikiwe

True, Soul, Creativity

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

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball, Doubt, Put

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
Camille Paglia

Time, Spiritual, Political

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
Hugh Laurie

Head, Clever, Boy

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
Maya Lin

Father, Side, China

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.
Jeffrey Kluger

Life, Deep, May

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
Umberto Eco

Human, Philosophy, Language

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler

Life, Learning, Minds

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
William Godwin

Love, Reason, Himself

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

Among, Scholars, Rake

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
Harold Bloom

Teacher, Trying, Possible

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
John James Audubon

Living, Knows, English

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
Fareed Zakaria

Life, Two, Succeed

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
John Millington Synge

Good, Give, Reading

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Robert Burns

Him, Gentleman, Locked

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

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 L. Pike

Conscience, Trouble, Clear

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
Kenneth L. Pike

Philosophy, Choose, Pure

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