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.

“It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

“The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)