Scholar Quotes

Th’art a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink.

– William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3. Sir Toby invites his friend Sir Andrew to do what they appear to do best. Their bonds of friendship have been formed while passing the bottle. And far from being a scholar, Sir Andrew is not the brightest and a fool.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

– Ahmad Jamal

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

– Duffy Daugherty

In my stunted career as a scholar, I’d read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio… But after 1400? Nihil.

– Cathleen Schine

I’m not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.

– Keith Ellison

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

– Robert Burns

I don’t know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

– Susan Vreeland

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.

– Thomas P. Campbell

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

– William Godwin

I’m a Nietzschean scholar. I’ve read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

– T. J. Miller

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

– William Hazlitt

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

– William Drummond

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

– Samuel Richardson