Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

    The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars—the scholar of nature.
    William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.
    Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

    A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)