Scholar Quotes - page 2

The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i. e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. ... The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself. (Leo Strauss)
Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [Dichter], but never a perfected, a truly great man. View quote
Karl Marx
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks. View quote
Randall Jarrell
I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar. View quote
Malcolm Bradbury
In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life--to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory. View quote
Paul Evdokimov
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. View quote
Reza Aslan
I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy. View quote
David Morrell
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. View quote
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking. (Ahmad Jamal)
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. View quote
Bernice Johnson Reagon
I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar. View quote
Derek Kilmer
I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. View quote
Duffy Daugherty
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. View quote
Kenneth Lee Pike
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar. View quote
Kenneth Lee Pike
Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar. View quote
Kathie Lee Gifford
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. View quote
Maya Lin
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. View quote
Trevor Nunn
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching. View quote
Thomas P. Campbell
The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics. Indeed, it is only in the last third of the century, within my own lifetime as a scholar, that economic theory has had many pretensions to being itself useful to the practical businessman or bureaucrat. I seem to recall that a great economist of the last generation, A. C. Pigou of Cambridge University, once asked the rhetorical question, "Who would ever think of employing an economist to run a brewery?” Well, today, under the guise of operational research and managerial economics, the fanciest of our economic tools are being utilized in enterprises both public and private. (Paul Samuelson)
My notion of a fruitful economic science would be that it can help us explain and understand the course of actual economic history. A scholar who seriously addresses commentary on contemporary monthly and yearly events is, in this view, practicing the study of history-history in its most contemporary time phasing. View quote
Paul Samuelson
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (, 8 September 1935) View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar. View quote
William Julius Wilson
The best foreign account of India that this age produced was written by Abu Rlhan, better known as Alberuni, a contemporary of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni. While the ruthless conqueror was harrying India by fire and sword, destroying and plundering its cities and temples, the great Arabic scholar engaged himself in studying the culture and civilization of the country. He learned Sanskrit and studied its different branches of literature. The bulky volume which he wrote is in many respects the most rational and comprehensive account of India ever written by a foreigner until modern times. He is singularly free from religious enthusiasm, bordering on fanaticism, and the racial superiority-complex which mark the Muslim writings of the age. He patiently laboured to acquire knowledge of Indian society and culture in a laudabile spirit of quest for truth, and brought to his task a liberal and rational mind enriched by profound knowledge, remarkable for his age. View quote
Al-Biruni