Scholar Quotes - Page 17

• Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope,
  And God Save--as you prefer--the King or Ireland.
  The land of scholars and saints:
  Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush,
  Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints

  Louis MacNeice

  Kings, Eye, Land

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Education, Truth, Mean

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• I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Responsibility, Learning

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• Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Roles, Politician, Comic

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• Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Atheism, Saint

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• Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is qualified for leadership, when it comes to posts of authority such as presidency, Muslim scholars unanimously agree that it is impermissible for a woman to assume such a post because in this case she is in charge of her people's affairs.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Men, Rights, People

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• I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

  Cynthia Voigt

  College, Arrogant

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• A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.

  Alexander Gardner

  Religious, Book, Buddhism

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• The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Spring, Creativity, Unique

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• I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Greek, Leopards, Bulls

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Lying, Loss

  "The prose works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In two volumes" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2005.

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• My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

  George Steiner

  Teacher, Writing, Hands

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• Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

  George Steiner

  Teacher, Careers, Age

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• We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Country, School, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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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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• A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosopher, Great Philosophers

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1889). “Early and miscellaneous letters”

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• Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and readable it should be studied by all academicians, students, legislators and lawyers.

  Nancy Kassebaum

  Book, College, Community

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• I don't want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Christian, Dream, Reality

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• Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a water-secure world. I heartily recommend his provocative, information-packed, and highly readable new book Unquenchable.

  Maude Barlow

  Book, Thinking, Water

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• Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape and a monumental size. Its value lies in its attention to detail and its full discussion of all relevant and disputed points. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students. Not all Hoehner's conclusions will command consent, but he has produced a stout and readable volume that all will turn to for guidance and help.

  Ralph P. Martin

  Lying, Book, Details

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• The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?

  Steven Runciman

  Latin, Son, Greek

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• My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

  Levon Helm

  Smart, School, Parent

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• Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations.
  One scholar is matched with another; one creative mind with another; and one judicious temperament with his counterpart. A victory won on that field counts for three won by force of arms.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Kings, Army, Creative

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

  Moliere

  Scholarship, Prose, Verses

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• Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Scholarship, Mess, Birthright

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.103

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