Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“I’m a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.”
—J.M. (John Millington)

“Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me, that a scholar is the favorite of Heaven and earth, the excellency of his country, the happiest of men. His duties lead him directly into the holy ground where other men’s aspirations only point. His successes are occasions of the purest joy to all men. Eyes is he to the blind; feet is he to the lame. His failures, if he is worthy, are inlets to higher advantages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)