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

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

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

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