“The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.”
Lord Chesterfield
“He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.”
William Shakespeare
“A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.”
William Drummond
“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr”
Muhammad
“When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert”
The Talmud
“A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood”
Irish Sayings
