Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

    I’m a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
    —J.M. (John Millington)

    A Scholar is a candle which the love & desire of men will light. Let it not lie in a dark box.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)