Bk. 14, Ch. 3 (p. 193)
Translations, The Confucian Analects
“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, Chapter I, Other chapters
Variant: A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name.
Source: The Analects of Confucius
Walter Goffart (1934) American historian
Source: Quotaes, Barbarian Tides (2010), p. 40
“He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
Review of Aiken’s Life of Addison
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/492729120418430976 (25 July 2014) <br class="br">Twitter
“Great among the Great Filipino Scholars.. He was recognized as the foremost scholar of his time.”
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) Filipino politician
Zaide, Gregorio F. 1965. Epifanio de los Santos: Great among the great Filipino scholars. In Great Filipinos in history. 88: 575-581.
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“In the school of Christ they are the best scholars who continue learning to the last.”
Christian Scriver (1629–1693) German hymnwriter
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 376.
“The person who associates with scholars, will have his reputation exalted.”
Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 202
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
As quoted in Al-Jaami' al-Saghîr by Imam al-Suyuti, where it is declared a "weak Hadith".
Variant translations:
The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.
The Islamic Review, Vol. 22 (1934), p. 105, edited by Khwajah Kamal al-Din
The ink of scholars will be weighed in the scale with the blood of martyrs.
As quoted in Knowledge of God in Classical Sufism: Foundations of Islamic Mystical Theology (2004) by John Renard
Sunni Hadith
