quotes about Scholar
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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 -
You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
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 -
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
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A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.
-- China Mieville -
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.
-- Clifford GeertzSource : Clifford Geertz (2012). “Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics”, p.67, Princeton University Press
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I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
-- Cynthia Voigt -
You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo
-- Dana Rosemary Scallon -
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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.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
-- Frederic FarrarSource : Frederic William Farrar (1875). “Seekers After God”, p.32
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
-- Iain Banks -
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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
-- Jules Verne -
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 -
Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.
-- Libba Bray -
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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 AntinSource : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.76, Courier Corporation
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When you help scholars, you gain a share in their learning.
-- Nachman of Breslov -
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.
-- Parker J. Palmer -
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Scholars will argue with each other about everything.
-- Peter Jennings -
The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.
-- Peter MaurinSource : Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.
-- Peter Singer -
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.
-- Peter Thiel -
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Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.
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I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.
-- Rachel Caine -
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
-- Robert BurtonSource : Robert Burton, William H. Gass (2001). “The Anatomy of Melancholy”, NYRB Classics
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
-- Samuel Richardson -
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Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
-- Tamora PierceSource : Tamora Pierce (2009). “Emperor Mage”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
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The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.
-- Theodor Mommsen -
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
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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 -
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
-- Wallace Stevens -
Poetry is the scholar's art.
-- Wallace StevensSource : Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.248, Vintage
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
-- Werner Herzog -
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I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.
-- William C. Brown -
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
-- Xunzi -
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.
-- Christina BaldwinSource : Christina Baldwin, Ann Linnea (2010). “The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair”, p.144, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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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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I don't think there is any other professional Bible scholar who is more respected and honored [like Frank Moore Cross].
-- Hershel Shanks -
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 -
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 HamillSource : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
