Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

    The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)