Scholar Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Basketball, Athlete

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• Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Leader, Firsts

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• A scholar knows no boredom.

  Jean Paul

  Boredom, Knows

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• We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Community, Scientist

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

  Peter Thiel

  Past, Great Future

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.31, Crown Business

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• In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Christian, Jesus, Zero

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• Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.

  Umar

  Humble, People, Dignity

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• It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way Bible scholars talk and think about it - and I'm including "Bible-believing" scholars there. There is a wide gap between the work of biblical scholars, whose business it is to read the text of the Bible in its own worldview context, and what you hear in church.

  Michael S. Heiser

  Biblical, Thinking, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Jobs, Men, Understanding

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• Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit to folks who show up on Sunday. I think that's just wrong, but scholars rarely make any effort to decipher their own scholarly work for people outside the ivory tower.

  Michael S. Heiser

  Biblical, Sunday, Thinking

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Building, Committed, Correcting

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.27, John Wiley & Sons

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• Do not lie to the Scholar.

  Philip Pullman

  Lying

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's interesting to see the lament of each generation overwhelmed by the next new tool. I can show you passages from scholars of Germany in the 1480s lamenting the fact that they are overloaded with all this stuff to read because of the printing press.

  Paul Saffo

  Interesting, Germany, Generations

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Spiritual, Fool, Masters

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• Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

  Mark Driscoll

  Soldier, Sabbatical, Study

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• Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Sunset, Blow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.491

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• Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of modern Christianity. Those who espouse Christianity beware! After digesting the evidence, you will never again view your religion in the same light.

  Robert M. Schoch

  Christian, Light, Views

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• Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Soldier

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.54, Library of America

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• I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Silly, Biblical

  "The Gospel According to Bart". Interview with David V. Barrett, "Fortean Times", 2007.

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• A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

  Confucius

  Change, Growth, Comfort

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• One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.

  Vartan Gregorian

  New York, Home, Pride

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• A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially plaques anyone who lives behind a mask. An elephant in her disquise as a human princess, a scarecrow with painted features, a glittering tiara under which to glow and glide in anonymous glamour. A witch's hat, a wizards stole, a scholars gown, a soldiers dress sartorials. A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I nkow what I know.

  Gregory Maguire

  Princess, Elephants, Ducks

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• Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Average, Remarkable

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• During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.

  Max Brooks

  Wall, Book, Flames

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.186, Broadway Books

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