A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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.
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.