Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)