Scholarly Learning Quotes & Sayings

We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity. — Peter Criss

I really detest those people who like to draw practical conclusions from scholarly truths, who 'apply learning to real life', like engineers who turn to propositions of chemistry into insecticides for bedbugs. It translates, in Goethe's words, as: 'life is grey, but the golden tree of theory is always green'. — Antal Szerb

The paparazzi don't care about me. — Nicholas Hoult

The present and the future belong to believers and practitioners of excellence; not the dinosaurs. — Rex Resurreccion

Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying. — Andrew Lansley

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well? — Henry David Thoreau

You don't look injured to me. What am I supposed to think? Have you been with them this whole time? My god, Brook. Where were you? — Wodke Hawkinson

A novel cannot be made of facts alone; in themselves they are dead things. — W. Somerset Maugham

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times. — Keyshawn Johnson

I loved those Latin words for their dignity, their foreignness, and the way my tongue had to wrap around them. I felt that in learning the special language of a scholarly order, I was amassing a kind of force. This was the pure and noble side of the world, uncorrupted by secrets and trickery. How extraordinary that a word could serve as a shorthand for an elaborate tale of disease. — Abraham Verghese

Most of the time you don't know how close a dream is to coming true, until after it has. — Mike Dooley

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much. — Susan Faludi

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity ... It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer