Scholar

Famous quotes containing the word scholar:

“I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

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

“When a scholar meets a soldier, he may have reason on his side, but to no avail.”
—Chinese proverb.