These scholar quotes will inspire you. Scholar, a person who has studied a subject for a long time and knows a lot about it or a specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities; a distinguished academic.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging scholar quotes, scholar sayings, and scholar proverbs.
Best Scholar Quotes
- “The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.” ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- “Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.” ~ Albert Pike
- “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” ~ B. B. King
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“Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.” ~ William Penn
- “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
- “The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
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“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” ~ Laozi
- “Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt.” ~ Humayun Azad
- “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~ Rumi
- “Each day is the scholar of yesterday.” ~ Publilius Syrus
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“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” ~ Will Durant
- “The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?” ~ Richard Courant
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“There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.” ~ Robert Burns
- “No one can take it away from you.” ~ B. B. King
- “The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.” ~ Nazr Mohammed
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“Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.” ~ Ralph Ellison
- “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~ Rumi
- “The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.” ~ Henry Giroux
- “Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.” ~ Ronald Dworkin , Scholar quotes about life
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“A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret.” ~ Pandita Ramabai
- “Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.” ~ Isidore of Seville
- “If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship.” ~ Marva Dawn
- “God is not a ‘being’ removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the source of being that underlies creation and grounds its nature and future potential for continual transformative renewal in biophilic mutuality.” ~ Rosemary Radford Ruether
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“The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out.” ~ William Tyndale
- “They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box.” ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- “He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs–pairs of opposites…He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.” ~ Muhammad Abduh
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“I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.” ~ Samuel Marinus Zwemer
- “God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel’s Messiah, the world’s true Lord.” ~ N. T. Wright
- “The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.” ~ Gary L. Francione
- “People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.” ~ Marie-Louise von Franz
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“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.” ~ Clarence Jordan
- “I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.” ~ Sheng-yen
- “Statistics is the grammar of science.” ~ Karl Pearson
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“All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.” ~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
- “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class – it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.” ~ Anna Julia Cooper
- “Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” ~ Ralph Ellison
- “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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“We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.” ~ Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
- “The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.” ~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
- “The true test of any scholar’s work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.” ~ Milton Friedman
- “While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking.” ~ Grey Owl
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi
- “When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice” ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
- “Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness…Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.” ~ Jacob Burckhardt
- “Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense” ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one’s self.” ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas , Scholar quotes about knowledge
- “Islam doesn’t promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you’re a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.” ~ Reza Aslan
- “Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.” ~ Carl Jung
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“The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You know, I didn’t write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how much my work has meant to them–well, I can’t tell you how happy that makes me. That means that this great stuff of myth, which I have been so privileged to work with, will be kept alive for a whole new generation. That’s the function of the artists, you know, to reinterpret the old stories and make them come alive again, in poetry, painting, and now in movies.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I’m a Muslim and ‘randomly’ pull me aside for ‘special treatment’. My sincere hope and prayer is that, on the Day of Judgment, my Lord’s angels also recognize me as a Muslim and pull me aside for special treatment” ~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
- “To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.” ~ William Tyndale
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“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” ~ Rumi
- “Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.” ~ Henry Thomas Buckle
- “If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.” ~ Andrew Harvey
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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi
- “The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.” ~ Muhammad Iqbal
- “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” ~ Rumi
