Quotes about Scholar
Provost John Mark Reynolds, for a position as professor and scholar in residence that gave me time to write Finding Truth.
- Nancy Pearcey
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.
- Parker Palmer
A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name.
- Confucius
The Christian of academic tastes accuses his brother of undue emotionalism, of shallow argumentation, of cheap methods of work. On the other hand, your practical man is ever loud in his denunciation of academic indifference to the dire needs of humanity. The scholar is represented either as a dangerous dissemination of doubt, or else as a man whose faith is a faith without works.
- J. Gresham Machen
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
- Confucius
He hadn't changed since I had seen him a few years earlier. With his close-cropped black beard, angular features, and riveting gaze, Craig still looks the role of a serious scholar. He speaks in cogent sentences, never losing his train of thought, always working through an answer methodically, point by point, fact by fact.
- Lee Strobel
Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.
- Oscar Wilde
Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc.
- CT Studd
The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.
- AW Tozer
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.
- Dinesh D'Souza
Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains.
- George Eliot