Quotes of: Scholars Keyword

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc.

Charles Studd

I am not a scholar of the past, but I am a lover of the past.

C.S. Lewis

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

Denis Johnson

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

William Godwin

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important; it is s...

Aldo Leopold

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wallace Stevens

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

Levon Helm

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Reading, writing, eating and sleeping; either makes you crazy or scholar.

M.F. Moonzajer

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

Paul Mellon

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

Big Sean

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Max Weber

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

Frederic William Farrar

Van Helsing: Gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead. Scholar: Nosferatu Van Helsing: Yes, Nosferatu.

Dracula

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

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