Scholars Quotes

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lon...

Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much mo...

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the t...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...

I would live to study not study to live.

I would live to study not study to live.

I would live to study not study to live.

I would live to study not study to live.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat ...

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire t...

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much...

Who are you?" the woman said at last."Lyra Silver—""No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do ...

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to ...

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...

He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.

Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of...

If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.

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

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insi...

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I lik...

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use an...