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The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.
He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.
The only scholarship that has any merit, I suppose, is what is useful to other people as well as oneself. The most meritorious of all is what is useful to other scholars, sometimes for generations.
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?
A Muslim scholar is a man who is not a specialist in any one branch of knowledge but is universal in his outlook and is authoritative in several branches of related knowledge - Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
Research is a passion with me; it drives me; it is my relentless master.
Think like a scholar.
Speak like a sage.
Live like a saint.
Character comes before scholarship.
It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.
I am a great scholar.
I am a great scientist.
Is it not the true scholar the only true master?
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.
I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.
We were scholars long before colleges.
Scholarship without virtue is like pearls pearls
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
A scholar is someone who sticks to things.
A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
Have you pen and ink, Master Doctor?"
"A scholar is never without them, your majesty," answered Doctor Cornelius.
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
One book led to another; reading during my free time became a new fondness. Nonetheless, there was never much consideration of being a scholar when beginning to do so. The titles I was turning to seemed to speak directly to me, and soon the reviews became one of my favorite things to do.
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
The most intimate community of all knowledge - the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.
The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Academics are not intellectuals; they are not curious, they build their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stay securely in them.
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes - with certain justification - that he was betrayed by his government.
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.
Scholarship is polite argument.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.
A man of one book, a student of many.
What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?
A sage is a student, though a teacher.
A student of wisdom becomes a professor of life.
No one becomes a scholar by virtue of robe and turban. Scholarship is a virtue in its very essence, and whether that virtue is clothed in tunic or overcoat, it makes no difference.
The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.
Study is a life long pursuit.
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college.
The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.
Reading, writing, eating and sleeping; either makes you crazy or scholar.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people
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Persons seeking to find scholarship herein will be sued; persons motivated to discover meaning will be exiled; persons seeking to find an allegory will be summarily ordained.
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.
All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.
The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.
My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.
The best physician is also a philosopher
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and execution of business.
Scholars love knowledge.
Philosophers love wisdom.
The most knowledgeable become professors.
The most wise become sages.
I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.
I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.
I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.
There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to study.
Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much
all of it wrong.
Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.
You become what you study.
A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.
A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
The quest for knowledge is passion to study.
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.
I am the manifestation of study,
NOT the manifestation of money.
Therefore, I advance through thought,
NOT what's manufactured and bought.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.
I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.
Scholarships have provided financial support to enhance the potential of curious mind.
I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
Harry Mount hints at the possibility that I was admitted to Magdalen in 1960 because my father had been senior scholar there a quarter of a century earlier. I was, in fact, the winner of an open scholarship; Mr Mount should learn the difference between genetics and nepotism.
I'm an avid biography reader.
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.
I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Ignorance may reside in a man hiding from intelligence, but scholarship can seem ignorance hidden behind intelligence.
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.