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

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

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson