Scholar Quotes

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

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

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

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

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 second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

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

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

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.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

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.

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.