Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. – Ambrose Bierce
A mere scholar, a mere ass. – Robert Burton
And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius
I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. – Johann von Goethe
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. – William Hazlitt
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland
There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. – Thomas Babington Macaulay
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound
Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. – Henry David Thoreau
