Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old scholar quotes, scholar sayings, and scholar proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.William Hazlitt
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Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.William Drummond
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A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.Lao Tzu
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A scholar without diligence is a lover without money.Muslih-uddin Sadi
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The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.Confucius
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The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.Stephen King
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The minds of scholars are libraries; those of antiquaries, lumber-rooms; those of sportsmen, kennels; those of epicures, larders and cellars.Eliza Cook
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One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.Rudyard Kipling
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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.William Hazlitt
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.Nnamdi Azikiwe
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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.Samuel Johnson
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The world's great men have not commonly been scholars, nor its great scholars great men.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.George Chapman
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. Wallace Stevens
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A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.Richard D. Altick
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The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.Eiji Yoshikawa
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgement.James Russell Lowell
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When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert.The Talmud
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Each day is the scholar of yesterday.Publilius Syrus
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.Chaucer
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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. Henry David Thoreau
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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.Mohammed
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Do you know the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him; and in that I am his pupil.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.Kenneth L. Pike
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You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes. Guido Calabresi