“ For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. ”
- Georg Hegel- Copy
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“ The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ There mark what ills the scholar's life; assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good. ”
- Nietzsche- Copy
- 587
“ How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which… 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of students have learned to critique tactfully? ”
- Barbara J. Alexander- Copy
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“ A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
- 868
“ A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. ”
- George Chapman- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. ”
- J. M. Synge- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. ”
- G. C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. ”
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch- Copy
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“ You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. ”
- Werner Herzog- Copy
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“ The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ”
- Daniel Bell- Copy
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“ What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
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“ He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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