"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."
— Nelson Mandela

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. "
— Susan Sontag

"They're so cold, these scholars!
May lightning strike their food
so that their mouths learn how
to eat fire!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."
— Slavoj Žižek

"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

"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. "
— Dan Rather

"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.'"
— David Eddings (King of the Murgos)

"History never repeats itself, historians do."
— Lee Benson (The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York As a Test Case)

"“I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.”
“Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.”"
— Chaim Potok (In the Beginning)

"[...] it is safer to wander without a guide through an unmapped country than to trust completely a map traced by men who came only as tourists and often with biased judgement. "
— Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (Gods and Heroes of the Celts)