Logo
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons p

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

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

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

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

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

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

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

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

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

Category:
Scholars, Scholarship

Random Quotes

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldnt feel like a job. So I did that. – Jason Mraz

Category:
dad

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription televisions most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options. – J. C. Watts

Category:
Politics

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, thats fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldnt! They shouldnt read my work! – Joyce Maynard

Category:
Experience

It doesnt work if the bad guys kill his mothers uncles friends neighbors pet dog. Youve got to make the stakes high. – Steven Seagal

Category:
pet