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Scholar Quotes

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

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

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tzu

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
Abbott L. Lowell

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
George Chapman

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
Fareed Zakaria

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
Publilius Syrus

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.
William Pierce

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Samuel Richardson

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler

Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
Alan Colmes

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Thomas B. Macaulay

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Robert Burns

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.
Compay Segundo

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

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
John James Audubon

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.
Duffy Daugherty

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
Ahmad Jamal

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
John Millington Synge

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.
Peter Jennings

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