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

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

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Scholars, Scholarship
category

There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson

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

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. – Henry David Thoreau

Random Quotes

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. – Venerable Bede

Category:
Knowledge

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. – Terry Pratchett

Category:
Truth

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it. – Joshua Lederberg

Category:
strength

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonalds and Burger King equalize us all. – John Corry

Category:
Food