Top 429 Scholar Quotes & Sayings

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

To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

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

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

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.

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

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

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.

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

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

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

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

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

In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets 'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar!

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

Do not lie to the Scholar.

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

I was never going to be a scholar.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

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

Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

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

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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

I'm not a Hemingway scholar, so I've come across some surprises.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

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

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

A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill. ting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible the world was. In reply, Rabi`a told him: "You love the world very dearly. If you did not love the world, you would not mention it so much. It is always the purchaser who first disparages what he wants to buy. If you were done with the world, you would not mention it either for good or evil. As it is, you keep mentioning it because, as the proverb says, whoever loves a thing mentions it frequently."

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

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

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

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

Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he knew Islamic theology and jurisprudence very well. He knew Persian, Arabic and Turkish, which was coming into Anatolia at that time, very well. He was a remarkable, remarkable scholar, besides being a great saint.

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

A scholar knows no boredom.

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