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  • But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

    Yield   Hands   Moral  
    Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

    School   Men   May  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.206
  • Poetry is the scholar's art.

    Art   Scholar   Poetry Is  
    Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.248, Vintage
  • One of the challenges in writing the script Call Me by Your Name was that I had to find something concrete for the professor to do. In the book he is some kind of classics scholar. But I thought it would be interesting to make him into something of an art historian and archaeologist whose background was the classical world. It's always difficult when someone is supposed to be an intellectual. What do they do? You can't just film them sitting around and thinking all day. And that's what the business of the statues is all about.

    Art   Book   Writing  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.

    U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.
  • Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

    Life   Someday   Scholar  
    Tamora Pierce (2009). “Emperor Mage”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
  • Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

    Book   Men   Race  
    Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.492, Oxford University Press
  • Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.

    Thinking   Doors   Wind  
    "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.
  • There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?

    Dust   Sick   Would Be  
    Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel”, p.17, Schocken
  • OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

  • Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in education: in Nietzsche's case, the production either of 'useless', dry-as-dust scholars or people 'useful' for the needs of an expanding industrial economy; in my case, a similar subjection of education to economic imperatives, but also to ideological obsessions, notably with promoting 'equality'.

    Writing   Dust   People  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

  • I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

    Life   Ambition   Past  
  • Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.

    Book   Artist   Annoyed  
    "The Figure a Poem Makes". Essay by Robert Frost, 1939.
  • We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

    John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.103, Penguin
  • The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

    Education   Truth   Mean  
  • The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

    Future   Past   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.70, Library of America
  • Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

    Lady Gregory (1919). “The Kiltartan Poetry Book”, p.14, Library of Alexandria
  • All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

    Stars   Men   Light  
  • He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.

    Religious   Couple   Eye  
  • You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo

  • A scholar has to know a little of everything.

    Littles   Scholar   Knows  
    Jules Verne, William Butcher (2005). “The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2786, Delphi Classics
  • If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

  • The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

  • Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.

    Religious   Book   People  
  • Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is qualified for leadership, when it comes to posts of authority such as presidency, Muslim scholars unanimously agree that it is impermissible for a woman to assume such a post because in this case she is in charge of her people's affairs.

    Men   Rights   People  
  • You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." "It sounds intriguing," admitted Eragon. "Always the scholar, aren't you?" asked Brom. Jeod shrugged. "Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

    Wall   Book   Laughing  
    Christopher Paolini (2011). “Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr Omnibus”, p.111, Random House
  • A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

    Love   Knowing   Able  
  • Statistics is the grammar of science.

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