Scholar Quotes

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

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.

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.

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

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.

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.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

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

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

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.