Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

“The scholar requires hard and serious labor to give an impetus to his thought. He will learn to grasp the pen firmly so, and wield it gracefully and effectively, as an axe or a sword.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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