Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
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.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.
[There is] a great book from Ravi Zacharis, a scholar from India, and its called Jesus Among Other Gods. I havent read that one, but I know Ravi really well, and I know its a good book.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.
Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph. D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.
I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.
The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.
[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx.