Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. - Emile Chartier
All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love. - Kamand Kojouri
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds - Idries Shah
To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen. - Blaise Pascal
I don't want to base my life on a symbol," he said resolutely. "I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream. - Gregory A. Boyd
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. - Rodney Stark
A nation's treasure is in its scholars. - Chinese Proverb
The religious scholars I have consulted are passionate about the need for political leaders to educate themselves in the varieties of faith and to see religion more as a potential means for reconciliation than as a source of conflict. - Madeleine Albright
Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur'an. - Jim Al-Khalili
Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools. - Thucydides
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. - Werner Herzog
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. - Steven Pinker