The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alien...
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!
I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.
Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I...
The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.
You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested…
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'.
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.
Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins, said Hamlet. When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers.
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