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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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Browse Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
A mere scholar, a mere ass.
A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.
Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.
I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
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.


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