“ 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… Kambiz Shabankare
“ They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire! Friedrich Nietzsche
“ 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… Thomas Aquinas
“ 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. Shannon L. Alder
“ You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested… Muriel Spark
“ Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. Werner Herzog
“ 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'. Elizabeth Kostova
“ An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. Dan Rather
“ 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. Kenneth Grahame
“ 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. Arthur Conan Doyle
“ The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds Idries Shah
“ 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. George Orwell
“ It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and exp… Adam Gopnik
