Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is a realist, and converses with things.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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