Scholar Quotes - Page 2
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
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
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.26
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
Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “Cuts”, p.47, Pan Macmillan