Scholar Quotes - Page 15

• Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and rest together, and then the work will be of such a kind that when the body is hungry the brain will be hungry also, and the same food will suffice for both; otherwise the food which repairs the waste energy of the overwrought body will oppress the sedentary brain, and the degenerate scholar will come to esteem all food vulgar, and all getting a living drudgery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Brain, Together

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• I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.

  Gregory Pardlo

  Two, Space, Kind

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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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• If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of the gospels is so obvious, why have so many scholars failed to appreciate the incontestable nature of the evidence?

  Robert W. Funk

  Appreciate, Support, Historical

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• When you help scholars, you gain a share in their learning.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Gains, Helping, Share

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• In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Latin, Book, Years

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• Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. One of these, the doing of the work, is proper to men trained in the individual subject, while the other the theory is common to all scholars.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Mistake, Men

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 15,

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• As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show myself of very considerable importance not only to builders but also to all scholars.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Promise, Volume

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 17,

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• There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Sex, Men, Males

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• Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Essentials, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Modern Library

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• Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Heroic, Cowardice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Light, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1378, Delphi Classics

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• For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have seen capitalism as intrinsically unstable, full of contradictions that will lead eventually to its collapse. Its supporters see it as the best way to allocate resources and rewards. Some even hint that the democratic capitalistic society is not just a phase in the historical evolution of economic systems but its ultimate end.

  Raghuram Rajan

  Two, Historical, Hints

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• It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Memories, Learning, Delight

  "Tirukkuṛaḷ". Religious text, 1812.

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• History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

  Christina Baldwin

  Stories, Conqueror, Happened

  Christina Baldwin, Ann Linnea (2010). “The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair”, p.144, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

  Edwin Boring

  Understanding, Historical, Facts

  "Psychologist at large: An autobiography and selected essays". Book by Edwin Boring, p. 3, 1961.

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• The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.

  Craig Mello

  Years, Community, Connections

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• The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Friendly, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.479, Рипол Классик

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• The core belief that drives terrorism is the notion of a "holy place," along with the idea that some people belong there and other people don't. That's why the only solution to terrorism is for religious scholars to hold a global summit to agree on the definition of "holy place." Once they agree on a definition, it will be easier to mock it into submission.

  Scott Adams

  Religious, Ideas, People

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• 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.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Religious, Arrogance, Dry

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Father, Fate, Tragedy

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• The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a profane person,and became a showman, turning his gifts to marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth. It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated, and the result was monstrous.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Selfish, Men, Growth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1528, Delphi Classics

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• Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Facts, Scholarship

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• Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Mother, Teacher, Husband

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

  Dale Spender

  Men, Political, Teach

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