Scholar Quotes - Page 31

• Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.

  David Stockman

  Ideas, Brilliant, Great Depression

  "David Stockman on his Book and the Bailouts". Mises Institute Interview, mises.org. September 6, 2013.

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• I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Pages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Blessed, Animal

  "The Endangered Species Act: Preserving Wildlife, Wonder and Our Natural Heritage for 40 Years" by Jamie Rappaport Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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• A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, White, Creative

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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• The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community... Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it... It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store... that’s the only way art can function naturally.

  Amiri Baraka

  Art, Clothes, People

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• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Military, Hero, Wonder

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Night, Men

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.

  Thomas Merton

  Religious, Book, People

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• It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholars have managed not to see it, and this, one must suspect, for dogmatic reasons.

  Robert M. Price

  Christian, Pagan, Reason

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• But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

  Alan Watts

  Skills, Perception, Taoism

  Alan Watts (1970). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”

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• The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views and misleading rulers.

  Umar

  Mistake, Hypocrite, Views

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• Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

  Steven Seagal

  Warrior, Artist, Greatness

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