30 Great Scholar Quotes and Sayings for the Intellectuals

The world’s great men have not commonly been scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

And let a scholar all earth’s volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
– George Chapman

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
– Chaucer

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
– Henry David Thoreau

A scholar without diligence is a lover without money.
– Muslih-uddin Sadi

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language it is not every one that can read in it.
– William Hazlitt

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
– William Drummond

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
– Lao Tzu

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
– Confucius

The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
– Stephen King

The minds of scholars are libraries; those of antiquaries, lumber-rooms; those of sportsmen, kennels; those of epicures, larders and cellars.
– Eliza Cook

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
– Rudyard Kipling

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
– William Hazlitt

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
– Nnamdi Azikiwe

There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
– Samuel Johnson

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and the’be lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
– Wallace Stevens

A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work – he must actually relish it.
– Richard D. Altick

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.
– Eiji Yoshikawa

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgement.
– James Russell Lowell

When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert.
– The Talmud

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
– Publilius Syrus

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
– Mohammed

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Do you know the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him; and in that I am his pupil.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble – and will not publish with a clear conscience.
– Kenneth L. Pike

You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.
– Guido Calabresi