Scholar Quotes

Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

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 second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

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

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.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.