Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.
I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.
I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a 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.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.
[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.
The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.
Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.
A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.