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Scholar Quotes

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Judith Norman (2002). “Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

'Anatomy of Bibliomania' (1930) vol. 1, p. 150

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.27, John Wiley & Sons

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

William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

The world is his who can see through its pretension.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.71, Penguin

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1889). “Early and miscellaneous letters”

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.31, Crown Business

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

Tamora Pierce (2009). “Emperor Mage”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.8297, Delphi Classics

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

Clifford Geertz (2012). “Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics”, p.67, Princeton University Press

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

Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.300, Vintage

Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.

Leo Baeck (1950). “The interrelations of Judaism, science, philosophy and ethics: Judaism, the Jew and The State of Israel”

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

Jules Verne, William Butcher (2005). “The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA