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• If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

  Hakim ibn Hizam

  Wisdom, Islamic, Honour You

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• The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Evil, Atheism

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• The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Political, Roles, Use

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• Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Vocabulary, Soul, Superstitions

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• No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

  Walter Pater

  Italian, Renaissance, Ancient

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Opportunity, United States, Links

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• Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

  Iain Banks

  Immediacy

  Iain Banks (2002). “Look to Windward”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

  Bill Viola

  Wisdom, Mystical Experiences, Solitude

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• Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

  Du Fu

  House, Covering, Poor

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• For me, apologetics proved to be the turning point of my life and eternity. I'm thankful for the scholars who so passionately and effectively defend the truth of Christianity - and today my life's goal is to do my part in helping others get answers to the questions that are blocking them in their spiritual journey toward Christ.

  Lee Strobel

  Spiritual, Block, Helping Others

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• Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

  Clifford Geertz

  Feminist, Female, Anthropology

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• A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

  Clifford Geertz

  Destroying, Employed

  Clifford Geertz (2012). “Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics”, p.67, Princeton University Press

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• Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

  Confucius

  Past, Chinese, Today

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• There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

  Emile Chartier

  Hate, Ideas, Two

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• The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Real, Knowledge, Masters

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.118, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who have become as men and men who have become as women. Writers of books with long titles. Only those knights who have failed to touch the Grail. Industrious women. You, and I, and a boy named Oleg, and a girl with blue hair.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Grief, Book

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• A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a meeting to discuss what's happening to Christians and other minorities. Nina Shea organized the effort.

  Tom Gjelten

  Christian, Religious, Moving

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• I think that ultimately we will attain much more depth of understanding of Scripture when we are able to study it in the company of a great number of scholars who all begin with the conviction that the Bible is completely true and absolutely authoritative.

  Wayne Grudem

  Thinking, Numbers, Understanding

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.16, Zondervan

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• The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Objectivity, Color, White

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• In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.

  Lin Yutang

  Believe, Cutting, Thinking

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Men, Fishing, Long

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.20, Macmillan

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• The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

  Julius Evola

  Prayer, Hero, Blood

  Julius Evola (2011). “Metaphysics of War”, p.43, Arktos

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• The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet the needs of a later age...A few scholars go even further, doubting even the existence of Muhammad.

  Daniel Pipes

  Christian, Doubt, Together

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• The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

  Theodor Mommsen

  Artist

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• At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.

  Carl Bernstein

  Heart, White, House

  Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1999). “All the President's Men”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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