Scholar Quotes

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

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

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

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

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

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

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

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

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

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

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.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

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

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

Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.