Top 442 Scholars Quotes & Sayings

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use a word scholars love - problematic. Let's say there are doubts, to say the least, among many scholars, as to whether the Exodus actually occurred. That's a historical issue.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.

Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope, And God Save--as you prefer--the King or Ireland. The land of scholars and saints: Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush, Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

The creation of the 'Goldie Scholars' program is an acknowledgment that knowledge isn't enough.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly fascinating exercises have made it appear to the lay Christian that no one untrained in their methods can really understand anything the Bible says. We are in a situation analogous to one about which the great Reformers complained. The Bible has been taken out of the hands of the layperson; it has now become the professional property not of the priesthood but of the scholars.

It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems.

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Kissinger's monopoly on this historical record has driven many scholars to distraction. Groups of lawyers, scholars, journalists and archivists have used pronunciamento, lawsuit, and other crowbars in a usually vain effort to open Kissinger's Library of Congress cache.

It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way Bible scholars talk and think about it - and I'm including "Bible-believing" scholars there. There is a wide gap between the work of biblical scholars, whose business it is to read the text of the Bible in its own worldview context, and what you hear in church.

There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy.

Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. ‘The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science.’

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.

I was at this dinner for Rhodes Scholars. And we were in the Rhodes mansion, which is this fancy mansion on the Oxford campus. And I remember I looked up in the rotunda, and I saw that etched into the marble were the names of Rhodes Scholars who had left Oxford, and had fought and died in World War II.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this: In studying any object with the microscope we use different lenses and turn the mirror in various ways; each change brings out some new wonder and beauty. So it is for those who are not Greek or Hebrew scholars, and who use the work of scholars to open the meaning of the exhaustible Word-the Bible is richer than any single version can fully show.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

I foresee the Globe attracting scholars from all over the world.

Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

I think we can be competitive on and off the field and create a model where our athletes are scholars and learners, too.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim they don't do politics but if you listen to their statements in the Middle East or in other conferences, they support corrupt regimes and despots, such as as-Sissi.

Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.

It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

When you help scholars, you gain a share in their learning.

The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.