A Quote by Susan Vreeland

I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

Susan Vreeland

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Susan Vreeland
American - Author
January 20, 1946 - August 23, 2017

I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.

Bart D. Ehrman

If Facebook owns social, if LinkedIn owns business, who owns your health?

Kevin Plank

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.

Platon

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

Rob Bell

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian, and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill -- whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains quite simply, a great man.

Geoffrey Elton

As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.

Austin Aries

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

Lao Tzu

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

William S. Burroughs

In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!

Bart D. Ehrman

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