Scholarship Quotes

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

A mechanic is driven by his work all day, but it ends at night; it has an end.  But the scholar's work has none.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language—it is not every one that can read in it.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station.

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