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The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Confucius

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

Confucius

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

I'm an Urban Scholar.

Michael Ward

Mike and I were similar in a lot of ways. We were happier about winning than Helms Scholar-Athlete award than getting All-City.

John Jamison

Especially being selected as a national merit scholar, I'm just fantastically proud of her, ... But it's just real tough knowing that that her mom couldn't be there. That's real hard.

Linda Hogan

I always put emphasis on being a scholar before an athlete. An injury can end a sports career on any play, but putting academics first is always a safe bet.

Dave Demarkis

I'm not a scholar, I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

Scott Turow

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

Duffy Daugherty

He has come through from being a scholar with us and he is not far away from his first start.

Barry Hunter

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

We want our players to be scholar-athletes. We emphasize that all year.

Shane Voss

There's not a single scholar on the face of the Earth who buys any of it.

Bart Ehrman

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Leonard Cohen

He had a tremendous ego -- at times, insufferable. At the same time he was incredibly brilliant, a great scholar and a great activist in American political and Israeli political affairs.

David Twersky

He's a serious scholar, and he has been an excellent director in Virginia. I think he will be very effective, both within the Getty and in the broader community.

Jeremy Strick

A scholar is the favorite of Heaven and of earth; The excellence of one's country, The happiest of mankind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang tzu

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

By getting up early in the morning one also gets more time at his disposal for work as compared to late-risers. Scholar and thinkers get up early in the morning and contemplate.

Rig Veda

He viewed himself as a scholar of history as well as chief justice. He loved American history.

Ken Gormley

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

George F. Kennan

Greyhound Canada knows students and we understand it can be a struggle to pay for higher education. Greyhound Road Scholar is one way we can give back to some of our best customers by helping them with their college expenses.

Paul Dillon

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

Morley Safer

These documents are going to make it more difficult for any scholar to simply say there was one German view toward the Jews -- that all Germans were willing executioners.

Richard Breitman

Kyle has been great to have on the team the last four years. He carries a 4.4 grade point average and I love the fact we have a kid who shows you can be an athlete and you can be a scholar at the same time. He does it in both realms.

Shane Valdez

I think the spirit of Penn fans is terrific. What I'm most proud of is that we have scholar-athletes here.

Amy Gutmann

There was a Rhodes Scholar on my team, Tom McMillan. My mom had a chance to go to college, but she couldn't go, and my dad had a ninth-grade education. They wanted me to have a good education, and I took pride in being a good student.

Len Elmore

Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.

Alan Colmes

She prides herself as being seen by her peers as a scholar. Her teachers describe Daphne as a hard worker who is bright and has a great attitude.

Tim Loomis

He is a true leader on the court and in the classroom. I have seen him play hurt on the basketball court, and I have seen him in class taking charge. He is a true scholar athlete and a leader and a good friend.

Richard Ryan

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

Sir William Drummond

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Abu Muhammad

I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.

Margaret Anderson

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

J.m. Synge

I've always take a lot of pride in the scholar-athlete (concept).

Shane Voss

Those were really the two pillars of this retreat: The list of sites and the authorization letter to enter into a contract for Phase 1. We are contracting with USC to do it because they can do it cheaper than anyone else. Basically they do it at cost, plus they have Steve Smith, the preeminent Marion scholar, on their staff.

Ben Zeigler

Eliminating Garry Trudeau's 'Doonesbury' on the basis of its competitive score on the comics page is a little like choosing a Rhodes scholar from a group of competitors made up of beauty queens, champion consumers of hot dogs, and three-legged racers. 'Doonesbury' is in a class by itself.

Pat Wilson

Sometimes these kids that are well-rounded don't get enough credit. We want to recognize the true scholar-athlete.

Ennis Proctor