Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher."
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Scholar
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Wallace Stevens
Poet
"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."
Jules Verne
Novelist, Playwright
"A scholar has to know a little of everything."
Jean Paul
Writer
"A scholar knows no boredom."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly."
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"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."
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"Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush."
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"History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground."
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"You scholars, you're in communication with the devil."
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"Poetry is the scholar's art."
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"A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]"
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"Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere."
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"There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know."
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"Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!"
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