Scholars Quotes

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

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

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

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

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.

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

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

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

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

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

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

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.

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

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

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

While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.