Scholars and enlightened always want to define the differences between communism, socialism, fascism and other economic or political systems. It really doesn’t matter to those who are subjected to those societies how someone has articulated...

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes… The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it...

The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we’re penciling it in for a Friday morning.

They’re so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

Who are you?” the woman said at last.”Lyra Silver—””No, where d’you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this?” Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It...

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. “Can they be brought...

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don’t believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a religious scholar should understand.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were finally the only important ones for us, there was no point...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History...

I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the...

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for...

…he imagined another life for himself as one of these silent scholars, buried in his research like a guinea pig in its wood shavings, nibbling away steadily after some arcane piece of knowledge in the...

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn’t know about yourself.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

Scholars don’t have blood flowing in their veins,” said Hamlet. “When they’re wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become … soldiers.

The Scholars”Bald heads forgetful of their sins,Old, learned, respectable bald headsEdit and annotate the linesThat young men, tossing on their beds,Rhymed out in love’s despairTo flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.They’ll cough in the ink to the...

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind … is the one fundamental treason which the scholar’s mind must not...

Reflective learning provokes critical thinking, enabling us to pose relevant questions, revealing the profound oceans of ignorance that surround even the most learned scholars in our fields of modern knowledge, invoking us to be active...

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

The Nazi and Soviet regimes turned people into numbers, some of which we can only estimate, some of which we can reconstruct with fair precision. It is for us as scholars to seek those numbers...

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which...