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

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

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

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. – William Hazlitt

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