An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought toge...
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...
Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were finally the only important ones for us, there wa...
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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.
Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henr...
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
The truest knowledge is the fear of God.
Who are you? the woman said at last.Lyra Silver—No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this? Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It w...
The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge.
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