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)

“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)

“The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)