Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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

“Take a decayed Christian ... and the remains of a Stoic; mix thoroughly with good manners, a bit of money and an old-fashioned education; simmer for several years in a university. Result: a scholar and a gentleman. Well, there were worse types of human being.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)