Scholars Quotes

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.