Top 1200 American Scholar Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm comfortable, culturally I'm American, my perspectives are American, but from an aesthetic perspective do other people look at me and think that I'm American?

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.

... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.

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

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

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

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

Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros

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

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

I'm not like a university-educated scholar. I just sing what I see.

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.

Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.

[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!

I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but also from Coke to jeans. It is entirely possible for people around the world to love American products, American books, American movies, American music, and dislike the policies of the government of America.

I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

I think there's a pride of what a real American can be. I mean, I'm a transplant, but I've got American kids and an American wife, and when I go back to England I feel more like an American, the way I look at the world, is more from an American perspective at this point. I've traveled every state 30 or 40 times, and have met an amazing array of people, and I have found Americans to be among the most kind and tolerant people I have ever met.

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

We should really focus on an American First agenda, and these climate pacts and climate regulations have been designed to not necessarily give American workers and the American environment a head start. It really gives our competition a greater ability to compete internationally and disadvantage American companies.

I grew up watching American movies. My favorite movies have always been American, since as long as I can remember. I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors.

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

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

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history.

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

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