Scholars Quotes

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

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.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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