(66 quotes found)
“The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.”
Lord Chesterfield
“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr”
Muhammad
“I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.”
Leonard Cohen
“A scholars ink lasts longer than a martyrs blood”
Irish Sayings
“Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.”
William Drummond
“When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert”
The Talmud
“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
“The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.”
William Osler
“It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.”
Wallace Stevens
“A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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