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

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

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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. – Ambrose Bierce

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

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

Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

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