A Quote by Hugh Laurie

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

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Any Boy Clever Form Head Never Scholar Shape Very Very Clever

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Hugh Laurie
British - Actor
Born: June 11, 1959

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

Lao Tzu

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

Confucius

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Scott Turow

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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Amos Oz

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

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Henry David Thoreau

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Paul Auster

I was never going to be a scholar.

Philip Green

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Plato

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

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Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.