Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“When a scholar meets a soldier, he may have reason on his side, but to no avail.”
—Chinese proverb.