Scholar Quotes - Page 12

• Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, People, Argument

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

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• At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.

  Robert Burchfield

  Order, Language, Periods

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• Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Men, Two

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.171, U of Nebraska Press

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• Poetry is the scholar's art.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Poetry Is

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.248, Vintage

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• In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

  Trevor Nunn

  Teacher, Passionate, Teens

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• I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Soldier, Devil, Together

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1970, Macmillan

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• I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

  Rachel Caine

  Wells

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.122, Allison & Busby

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• I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

  Umberto Eco

  Watches, Television, Serious

  "Umberto Eco, 1932-2016". Obituary by Marvin Olasky, world.wng.org. February 20, 2016.

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• Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting he himself called. He only dresses with any sense of fashion because a Terriswoman bought him a new wardrobe. War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he's still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fashion, War, Book

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.478, Macmillan

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• Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

  Nick Harkaway

  Children, Bored, Stripes

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.38, Random House

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• You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." "It sounds intriguing," admitted Eragon. "Always the scholar, aren't you?" asked Brom. Jeod shrugged. "Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

  Christopher Paolini

  Wall, Book, Laughing

  Christopher Paolini (2011). “Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr Omnibus”, p.111, Random House

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• A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

  China Mieville

  Way, Theory, Mere

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• What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

  Jane Yolen

  Book, Heart, Critics

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• Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Mean, Age

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.479, Oxford University Press

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• Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Men, Race

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.492, Oxford University Press

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• ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Religious, Science, Men

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British Poets”, p.205

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• Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Song, Sound, Sigh

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.20, Dell

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• The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

  George F. Kennan

  People, Generations, Records

  "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

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• The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

  Stephen King

  Procrastination, Calling, Research

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• It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

  Christopher Paolini

  Honesty, Lying, Fool

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.637, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed 'patrivincialism' or patrochialism': the assumption that women are a subgroup, that men's culture is the 'real' world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the 'great' or 'liberalizing' periods of history have been the same for women as for men.

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Men, Intellectual

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• And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

  Robert James Waller

  Knowledge, Gypsy, Remember

  Robert James Waller (1990). “One good road is enough: essays”, Wiley-Blackwell

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• Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

  Max Weber

  Writing, Achievement, Pieces

  Max Weber, David S. Owen (2004). “The Vocation Lectures”, p.55, Hackett Publishing

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• I think confronted with the modern world or with the rest of the world, I think people are becoming aware that the Western and Islamic civilizations have more in common than apart. It was a German scholar, C. H. Becker, who said a long time ago that the real dividing line is not between Islam and Christendom; it's the dividing line East of Islam, between the Islamic and Christian worlds together on the one hand and the rest of the world on the other. I think there is a lot of truth in that.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Real, Islamic

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• Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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