Quotes on Scholar

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

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.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out.

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.

I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.