Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“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.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

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

“He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)