The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'.

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. Can they be brought together? This is a practical question. We must get down to it. I despise intelligence really means: I cannot bear my doubts.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.