Scholar Quotes - Page 3

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Scholarship is polite argument.

Do not lie to the Scholar.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.

There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.

Character comes before scholarship.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!