Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

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

“A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)