“ It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship… Roman Payne
“ They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire! Friedrich Nietzsche
“ Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control the education of the Empire, we lend to the Press such distinction as it co… E.M. Forster
“ As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospectiv… Ibn Warraq
“ You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested… Muriel Spark
“ The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'That's where all the… David Eddings
“ My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege. Ezra Koenig
“ 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
“ An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. Dan Rather
“ Politics bores you? Bronsen said.Julien smiled. It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all… Iain Pears
“ 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
