The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. – Johann von Goethe

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