Top 25 Scholar Quotes of 57 - Page 2

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

Writing, Bad Writing, Scholarship

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

Xunzi

Successful, Men, Scholar

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

Years, Mayors, Scholar

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

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Richard Levins

Suffering, Scholarship, Indifferent

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

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

Peter Jennings

Arguing, Scholar

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

Theodor Mommsen

Artist, Scholar

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

Steven Pinker

Art, Human Nature, Scholar

"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.

Arbitrary, Relation, Scholar

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

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

Publilius Syrus

Experience, Succeed, Scholar

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

Peter Jennings

Scholar, Reporters

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

Libba Bray

Librarian, Scholar, Accurate

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Kenneth Lee Pike

Topics, Trouble, Scholar

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

Henry David Thoreau

Scholarship, Mess, Birthright

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

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

Edwin Moses

School, Scholarship, Athletics

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

China Mieville

Way, Theory, Scholar

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

Bertolt Brecht

Men, Scholarship, Turns

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

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.

Anatoly Chubais

Should Have, Young, Scholar

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

William C. Brown

Stupidity, Thanks, Scholar

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

Viggo Mortensen

Different, Scholarship, University

"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.

The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

Soren Kierkegaard

Immortality, Conscious, Scholarly