#scholar

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

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

— Nnamdi Azikiwe

#essence #originality #scholar #scholarship #soul

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

— Kathie Lee Gifford

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

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series. ↗

— James Loeb

#consulted #desirability #distinguished #had #i

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise. ↗

— Idries Shah

#donkeys #ego #evolution #intelligence #poses

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film. ↗

— Robert Mayer

#exposed #film #good #good thing #people

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#family #family tradition #father #heavily #living

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#boy #clever #form #head #i

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#rake #scholar #scholars