Quotes of: Scholar Keyword

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

Peter Singer

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Robert Burns

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

John Charles Polanyi

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

Jonathan Swift

We must acknowledge that all we have are, at times very differing, interpretations of what Jesus was all about-and these interpretations, as they are collected in the New Testament, have been written in particular situations by men, none of whom ques...

Reading Otherwise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with their Local Communities

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Steven Pinker

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

11/22/63

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Kenneth L. Pike

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

John Millington Synge

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

Sun Myung Moon

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultu...

William Kirby

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

Jeffrey Kluger

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Felix Adler

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.

Jean Baudrillard

My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.

Julia Glass

The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.

John Bradshaw

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

Umberto Eco

Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.

The Frowny Face Cow

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

The Gone-Away World