A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.
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!
I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U. S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs of excessive commercialization in every part of the university. ' His somber assessment of the current state of athletics, scientific research, and distance education, and his call for review and restraint, should engage the attention of every faculty senate in the country. He has given us a timely, candid, courageous, and important book.
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
Poetry is the scholar's art.
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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.
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
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.
A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.
Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.
