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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.
My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc.
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.
There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.
I don't think there is any other professional Bible scholar who is more respected and honored [like Frank Moore Cross].
To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
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.
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known 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.
I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.
There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.
I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.
The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.
College works on the factory model and is, in many ways, not suited to training entrepreneurs. You put in a student, and out comes a scholar.
I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.
I believe an artiste is a reflection of society. I write what I see. I am not a scholar, I am just an entertainer. I cannot change the way people think.
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
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.
The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.
I'm one of those folks that look and say the Old Testament laid out clearly the path for Christ to come, but when He came, every scholar at that time missed it.
I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.