Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“And let a scholar all earth’s volumes carry,
He will be but a walking dictionary:
A mere articulate clock.”
—George Chapman (1559–1634)

“The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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)