Scholar Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Looks, Way

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• A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

  Rumi

  Love, Knowing, Able

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• Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Creativity, Essence, Soul

  Nnamdi Azikiwe “ZIK A SELECTION FROM THE SPEECHES OF NNAMDI AZIKIWE Governor-General of the Federation of Nigeria formerly President of the Nigerian Senate formerly Premier of the Eastern Region of Nigeria”, CUP Archive

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• There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

  Alfred Austin

  Educational, Humility, Garden

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.

  Umar

  Bears, Easier, Forbidden

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• Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros

  Stuart Briscoe

  Children, Heart, Mind

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• Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery.

  Deborah Harkness

  Two, Focus, Trying

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Doubt, World

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• A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
  ting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible the world was. In reply, Rabi`a told him:
  "You love the world very dearly. If you did not love the world, you would not mention it so much. It is always the purchaser who first disparages what he wants to buy. If you were done with the world, you would not mention it either for good or evil. As it is, you keep mentioning it because, as the proverb says, whoever loves a thing mentions it frequently."

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Islamic, Evil

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• The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

  Confucius

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Men

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• 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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Integrity, Artist, Depth

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• Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Intelligent, Interesting

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Animal, Needs, Tao Of Pooh

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• Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you. For you is the phenomenon perfect. What we are, that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names. Build, therefore, your own world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Land, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.61, Penguin

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• We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

  John Steinbeck

  Wife, Faithful, Attention

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.103, Penguin

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• While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Passion, Opposites

  "On Filmmaking: Werner Herzog". www.rowthree.com. November 15, 2008.

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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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• A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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• Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Learning, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2667, Delphi Classics

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• What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Animal, People

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• A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Errors, Age

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• A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Games, Hands

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.136, Holt Paperbacks

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• Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

  Tamora Pierce

  Life, Someday, Written

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Emperor Mage”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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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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