Scholar Quotes

• The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Positive, Philosophical, Fault Finding

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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  Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

  Albert Pike

  Artist, Men, Genius

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• 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.

  William Penn

  Book, Reading, Mind

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.446

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• I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

  Leonard Cohen

  Faces, Doe, Sitting

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.12, Vintage

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• The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Cheer, Teaching

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.182

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• In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Exercise, Power, Abjection

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

  Laozi

  Love, Witty, Humorous

  "Analects of Confucius". 475–221 BC.

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• Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt.

  Humayun Azad

  Inspirational, Faith, Spring

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• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

  Publilius Syrus

  Yesterday, Each Day

  "Maxims".

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Change, Graduation, Education

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Education, Men, Political

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

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

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Language, Written

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

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

  Richard Courant

  Philosophy, Science, Sensual

  "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant, (p. xix), 1941.

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• There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

  Samuel Johnson

  Envy, Toil, Want

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 157

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• His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

  Robert Burns

  Gentleman, Apparel, Brass

  Robert Burns (1863). “The Poetical Works”, p.228

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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• The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

  Nazr Mohammed

  Education, Fear, Military

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• Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Confidence, Power

  "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, Ch. 6, 1952.

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• Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

  Henry Giroux

  Book, Reading, Knowing

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• Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Life, Writing, Creating

  Ronald Dworkin (2011). “Justice for Hedgehogs”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret.

  Pandita Ramabai

  Life, God, Religious

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• Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.

  Isidore of Seville

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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