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...
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...
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.
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…
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'.
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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.
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
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.
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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.
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.
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
I would live to study not study to live.
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