Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

    The scholar might frequently emulate the propriety and emphasis of the farmer’s call to his team, and confess that if that were written it would surpass his labored sentences.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    And let a scholar all earth’s volumes carry,
    He will be but a walking dictionary:
    A mere articulate clock.
    George Chapman (1559–1634)

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