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Scholar Quotes - Page 2

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

Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.179, Stanford University Press

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

Robert Burton, William H. Gass (2001). “The Anatomy of Melancholy”, NYRB Classics

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins (2007). “Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society”, p.369, NYU Press

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

"A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.10, Macmillan

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.103

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Life Of Galileo”, p.55, Bloomsbury Publishing

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

"Viggo Mortensen interview: 'If I think a film's beyond me - that's a good sign'". Interview with Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2013.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.3, Book Tree

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “Cuts”, p.47, Pan Macmillan