A Quote by Philip Green

I was never going to be a scholar.

Philip Green

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Philip Green
British - Businessman
Born: March 15, 1952

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

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

Scott Turow

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

China Mieville

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

Morley Safer

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.

Guido Calabresi

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

Parker J. Palmer

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

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

Plato

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.

Terry Pratchett

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