Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars—the scholar of nature.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is a realist, and converses with things.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)