Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A scholar without going outside his door can know all the affairs of the world.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)