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12 quotesA great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
Scholars and Scholarship
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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A mere scholar, a mere ass.
Scholars and Scholarship
Robert Burton
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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James Russell Lowell
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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William Hazlitt
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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Ambrose Bierce
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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
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J. M. Synge
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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
Scholars and Scholarship
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Scholars and Scholarship
Georg Hegel
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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
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Samuel Johnson
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
Scholars and Scholarship
Confucius
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun