The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

- Tariq Ali

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

- Spencer Abraham

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

- Steven Pinker

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

- Roy Blount, Jr.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

- Robert Burton

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.

- Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

- Peter Jennings

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

- Peter Singer

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

- Carter G. Woodson

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.

- James Loeb

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

- Joseph Lancaster

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

- John Shelby Spong

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

- Jean Baudrillard

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

- Guy Davenport

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

- Frederic William Farrar

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

- Frederick the Great

The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.

- Craig Mello

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

- Clifford Geertz