Top Scholar Quotes
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
Maya Lin
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler
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
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
Kenneth L. Pike
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tzu
Ahmad Jamal 
William Godwin 
Norman Lamm 
Samuel Richardson 
Adam Clarke 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
Raymond Chandler 
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My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
Maya Lin 
69% of people like this quote
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler
65% of people like this quote
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
60% of people like this quote
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
Kenneth L. Pike
57% of people like this quote
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tzu
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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
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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
56% of people like this quote
Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.
Kathie Lee Gifford
55% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt
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