#scholar

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cause #critic #demonstrate #demonstrating #every

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#before #brings #philosophers #picture #scholars

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#people #scholars #usually #wisest

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

#ass #does #face #i #i am

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#adding #american #american experience #broader #complexity

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

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

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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

— William Pierce

#blends #every #greatness #his #person