56 Scholar Quotes for You to Enjoy

To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar. John Quelch

You Scholar Well Dean Salesman

Over the last three years, UCLA has helped me grow as an athlete, a scholar, and a member of the community. I have made some mistakes along the way; however, I am grateful that I made those mistakes backed by such a supportive and positive university so that I could learn from them and better myself. Josh Rosen

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If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea. Joshua Foer

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I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything. Keith Ellison

History Scholar Islamic Jurisprudence Anything

I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them. Luis Gutierrez

One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about. Luke Evans

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake. Maeve Binchy

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I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field. Michael Spence

My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very deeply about the world. He was a scholar, he studied history. He taught a class in critical thinking, and he was very, very aware of the directions we might go. Nick Sagan

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I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar. Peter Jennings

Scholar Reporter

I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. Reza Aslan

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It is true that I am one of the co-authors of 'Nudge,' and I am a behavioral economist, but it does not mean that everything we write about in that book is behavioral economics, nor does it mean that my co-author, the distinguished legal scholar Cass Sunstein, is a behavioral economist. Richard Thaler

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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. Robert Burns

Gentleman Collar Locked Scholar Him His Brass

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense. Samuel Richardson

Man Sense Every Presume Scholar Necessarily

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature. Scott Turow

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With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method. Simon Kuznets

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I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion. Susan Vreeland

Scholar Know Opinion Historian Owns

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. William Godwin

Love Diligent Scholar He Himself Loves Reason Applaud Desires

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

Book Language Every Scholar Written Like Dead Read

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. William Hazlitt

Best Nature Scholar Scholars True Painter Humblest

Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar. William Julius Wilson

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