Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“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)

“It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

“He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)