Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.”
—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)

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