“Suggest always put Islamic "scholar" in quotes, to avoid insulting true scholars. True scholars have read more than one book.”

— Richard Dawkins

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/492729120418430976 (25 July 2014)
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English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941

Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904–1996) First President of Nigeria

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“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

"Common Places," No. 13, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823)

“Books are the gardens of scholars.”

Ali (601–661) cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Abdul Vahed Tamimi, Ghurar al-Hikam wa Durar al-Kalim, p. 245.
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“The best definition of true imagination is that it is the sum of our faculties. Poetry is the scholar's art.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
Context: The best definition of true imagination is that it is the sum of our faculties. Poetry is the scholar's art. The acute intelligence of the imagination, the illimitable resources of its memory, its power to possess the moment it perceives — if we were speaking of light itself, and thinking of the relationship between objects and light, no further demonstration would be necessary... What light requires a day to do, and by day I mean a kind of Biblical revolution of time, the imagination does in the twinkling of an eye. It colors, increases, brings to a beginning and end, invents languages, crushes men, and, for that matter, gods in its hands, it says to women more than it is possible to say, it rescues all of us from what we have called absolute fact...