Scholar Quotes Quotes

“A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Scholars are a gift. Saints are a prize. Sages are a blessing. Enlightenment is our reward.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Truth is an honest saint; ignorance is a helpless scholar; knowledge is a kind sage.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A scholar's mind is tall. A saint's heart is wide. A sage's soul is deep.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A pen in a scholar's pocket is greater than a sword in a warrior's hand.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The world is a scholar's classroom; the universe is a sage's university.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“One who learns from scholars is intelligent, but one who learns from fools is wise.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Freedom is peace. Ignorance is slavery. Enlightenment is a scholar's highest reward.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Scholars are the world's pearls, sages are the universe's diamonds.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Scholars view the world from the mountaintop, sages view the universe from the stars.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Take away the scholars and all progress will come to a standstill.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Not all students will become scientists, but all students need to think scientifically.”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Knowledge helps its enemies, but ignorance harms its friends.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Truth is a saint. Pride is a sinner. Curiosity is a scholar. Love is a sage.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A sage's lowest wisdom surpasses a scholar's highest wisdom.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A sage's lowest wisdom surpasses a scholar's highest intelligence.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A humble student is better than a proud scholar.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“I had long ago determined that I would devote my life to literary scholarship. Not, let me emphasise, the dry-as-dust scholarship of academe, the crushing orthodoxy to be found in universities, but rather the recondite scholarship that is a journey into the unknown. I refer, chiefly, to those dead authors whose works savour of the uncanny and the marvellous, authors whose unique perspectives are beyond the self-stultifying purview of the modern critical mania for so-called realism. For my part I chose the mysteries, and the hierophant of mystery was an obscure author called Arthur Machen.”
― Mark Samuels, The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales

“The mind is a great scholar. The heart is an extraordinary saint. The ego is an exceptional sinner. The soul is a remarkable sage.”
― Matshona T Dhliwayo

“Scholars seek, sages find.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Scholars are the world's candles, sages are the universe's stars.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The lowest sage is greater than the highest scholar.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The lowest sage is still greater than the highest scholar.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A humble sage is better than a proud scholar.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A scholar’s thoughts are higher than a mountain.
A saint's heart is deeper than an ocean.
A sinner’s conscience is narrower than a tunnel.
A sage’s soul is wider than a world.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“I am too mediocre to be now at Oxford (Apeejay House) and on going at India's best site in Publishing Interview of Authors.”
― Rituparna Ray Chaudhuri, Realization (Documents Based on Self-Scholarly Effects with Google Scholar Citations.): William Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore and John Keats: On Selected Works of the Legends.