Quotes with scholar

  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • Lord Chesterfield The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Burton A mere scholar, a mere ass.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • William Hazlitt A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Lao-Tzu A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell 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.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • George Chapman And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
    George Chapman
    English writer and poet (1559 - 1634)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men in the German and British academic tradition.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alan Colmes 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.
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Leonard Cohen I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Umberto Eco I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • John Millington Synge I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon 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.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Bill Viola Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Raymond Chandler 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.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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