#scholar

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

#film #look #only #scholars #see

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#except #measure #never #person #power

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#commonly #great #great men #men #nor

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ↗

— Alfred Austin

#bottom #class #constantly #even #gardening

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

#learning #need #power #same #scholars

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#attendance #building #i #proper #putting

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. ↗

— Robert Burton

#make #mayors #officers #scholars #year

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. ↗

— Jung Chang

#awarded #began #china #died #first

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. ↗

— Juan Cole

#another #before #class #go #party

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#important #nation #need #people #safe