The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.
I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.