Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“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)

“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)

“The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars—the scholar of nature.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)