#scholar

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#argumentation #logic-of-thought #persuasion #r-alan-woods #scholarly

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#books #men

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#attitude #business #gentleman #him #his

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts. ↗

— Albert Camus

#intelligence #philosophy #scholars #intelligence

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ↗

— Nnamdi Azikiwe

#essence #originality #scholar #scholarship #soul

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

— George Chapman

#carry #clock #dictionary #earth #mere

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

#admit #admitting #bush #genius #george

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

— Duffy Daugherty

#could #except #grades #i #scholar

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#mom #over #scholar #self-taught #years

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

#am #finished #i #i am #i do