Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“A Scholar is a candle which the love & desire of men will light. Let it not lie in a dark box.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

“The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)