Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“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)

“The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)