#scholar

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not. ↗

— James E. Rogers

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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. ↗

— Xun Zi

#men #merely #petty #public-spirited #scholars

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#dead #every #language #like #read

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#civilized #concept #generation #history #implies

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#brilliant #college #continue #could #down

Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#call #enough #got #had #i

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#cooking #down #ended #full #go

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#hundred #near #scholars #school #three

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship. ↗

— Ryan Murphy

#afford #been #film #film school #get

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#developed #english #english literature #i #idolatry