The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. – Henry David Thoreau Category: Scholars, Scholarship
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius Category: Scholars, Scholarship
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 Category: Scholars, Scholarship
And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman Category: Scholars, Scholarship
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. – John Stuart Mill Category: Conformity
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time. – Leonardo da Vinci Category: Time
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. – H.L. Mencken Category: America
