Quotes about Scholar

Each day is the scholar of yesterday. Votes: 6

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. Votes: 6

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. Votes: 6

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. Votes: 6

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. Votes: 6

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. Votes: 6

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. Votes: 4

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. Votes: 4

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? Votes: 4

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. Votes: 4

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Votes: 4

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Votes: 4

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong. Votes: 4

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. Votes: 4

Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros Votes: 4

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. Votes: 4

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. Votes: 4

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? Votes: 4

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. Votes: 4

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. Votes: 4

The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools. Votes: 4

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. Votes: 4

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone. Votes: 4

Do not lie to the Scholar. Votes: 3

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. Votes: 3

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. Votes: 3

An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan) Votes: 3

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972] Votes: 3

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. Votes: 2

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Votes: 2

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. Votes: 2

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. Votes: 2

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. Votes: 2

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. Votes: 2

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes. Votes: 2

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business. Votes: 2

I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. Votes: 2

I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake. Votes: 2

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science. Votes: 2

I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field. Votes: 2

I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy. Votes: 2

Many friends of mine told me that normally only guys like a kung fu movie and the girls would be turned off - they want to see a love story. But Ip Man is a family man, so the women see this and go: 'I want my husband to be like this man. He'll be a scholar, he'll be fighting, he'll care for the family.' So we had a bigger audience. Votes: 2

A scholar knows no boredom. Votes: 0

Poetry is the scholar's art. Votes: 0

Pain teaches lessons no scholar can. Votes: 0

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. Votes: 0

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research. Votes: 0

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere. Votes: 0

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar. Votes: 0

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds. Votes: 0

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. Votes: 0

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. Votes: 0

Free should be the scholar - free and brave. Votes: 0

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure. Votes: 0

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar. Votes: 0

A scholar has to know a little of everything. Votes: 0

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing. Votes: 0

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense. Votes: 0

A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known. Votes: 0

Reading, writing, eating and sleeping; either makes you crazy or scholar. Votes: 0

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. Votes: 0

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar. Votes: 0

I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders. Votes: 0

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. Votes: 0

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. Votes: 0

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. Votes: 0

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo Votes: 0

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. Votes: 0

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance. Votes: 0

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. Votes: 0

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic. Votes: 0

The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day. Votes: 0

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it. Votes: 0

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear. Votes: 0

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. Votes: 0

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense. Votes: 0

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought. Votes: 0

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. Votes: 0

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar. Votes: 0

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate. Votes: 0

A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.] Votes: 0

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student. Votes: 0

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips. Votes: 0

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. Votes: 0

[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank! Votes: 0

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory. Votes: 0

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr. Votes: 0

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. Votes: 0

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar Votes: 0

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar. Votes: 0

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power. Votes: 0

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt. Votes: 0

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels. Votes: 0

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar Votes: 0

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. Votes: 0

The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation. Votes: 0

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical. Votes: 0

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect. Votes: 0

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. Votes: 0

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face. Votes: 0

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. Votes: 0

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. Votes: 0

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. Votes: 0

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. Votes: 0

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered. Votes: 0

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. Votes: 0

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool. Votes: 0

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. Votes: 0

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter. Votes: 0

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds. Votes: 0

Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc. Votes: 0

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges. Votes: 0

To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar Votes: 0

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression. Votes: 0

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. Votes: 0

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks. Votes: 0

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. Votes: 0

I don't think there is any other professional Bible scholar who is more respected and honored [like Frank Moore Cross]. Votes: 0

Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon. Votes: 0

You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes. Votes: 0

A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday. Votes: 0

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. Votes: 0

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. Votes: 0

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn't like to watch television. I'm just the only one who confesses Votes: 0

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school. Votes: 0

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. Votes: 0

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching. Votes: 0

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching, Votes: 0

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar. Votes: 0

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar. Votes: 0

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. Votes: 0

I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all. Votes: 0

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh. Votes: 0

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar. Votes: 0

Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time! Votes: 0

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true. Votes: 0

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. Votes: 0

In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil. Votes: 0

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar Votes: 0

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility. Votes: 0

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess. Votes: 0

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center. Votes: 0

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. Votes: 0

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth. Votes: 0

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. Votes: 0

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking. Votes: 0

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser. Votes: 0

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar. Votes: 0

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. Votes: 0

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. Votes: 0

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination. Votes: 0

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. Votes: 0

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. Votes: 0

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible. Votes: 0

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden. Votes: 0

When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism. Votes: 0

The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king. Votes: 0

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. Votes: 0

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea. Votes: 0

In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in fact reliable." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] Votes: 0

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud. Votes: 0

I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar. Votes: 0

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. Votes: 0

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher Votes: 0

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts. Votes: 0

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors. Votes: 0

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject. Votes: 0

My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar. Votes: 0

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer. Votes: 0

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. Votes: 0

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it. Votes: 0

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. Votes: 0

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know. Votes: 0

A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning. Votes: 0

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal. Votes: 0

Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without. Votes: 0

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat. Votes: 0

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. Votes: 0

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. Votes: 0

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself. Votes: 0

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books. Votes: 0

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading. Votes: 0

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) Votes: 0

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech. Votes: 0

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher. Votes: 0

Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle. Votes: 0

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. Votes: 0

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound. Votes: 0

I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty. Votes: 0

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart. Votes: 0

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. Votes: 0

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher. Votes: 0

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment. Votes: 0

At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody elses rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes. Votes: 0

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half. Votes: 0

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds. Votes: 0

Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and readable it should be studied by all academicians, students, legislators and lawyers. Votes: 0

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do. Votes: 0

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter. Votes: 0

I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies. Votes: 0

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers. Votes: 0

However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value. Votes: 0

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Votes: 0

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me. Votes: 0

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of. Votes: 0