"Savant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with manifest poverty. I could make nothing of it. What manner of man, I wondered, was this new patient of mine? Was he a miser, hiding himself and his wealth in this obscure court? An eccentric savant? A philosopher? Or—more probably—a crank? But at this point my meditations were interrupted by the voice from the adjoining room, once more ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman
... the instinct of living, or rather of surviving, come into conflict. In his work on the Analysis of the Sensations and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical,[32] Dr. E. Mach tells us that not even the investigator, the savant, der Forscher, is exempted from taking his part in the struggle for existence, that even the roads of science lead mouth-wards, and that in the actual conditions of the society in which we live the pure instinct of knowing, der reine Erkenntnisstrieb, is still no ...
— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno
... are not books, as Milton bade us do with 'neat repasts of wine,' she wisely spared to interpose them oft. Her standards of knowledge were those of the erudite and the savant, and even in the region of beauty she was never content with any but definite impressions. In one place in these volumes, by the way, she makes a remark curiously inconsistent with the usual scientific attitude of her mind. She has been reading Darwin's Origin of Species, on which she ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) - The Life of George Eliot • John Morley
... bony frames which had in life apparently been covered with a thin fleshy substance of leathery like tenacity stretching thence to the wrists. I asked the slave trader where he had found the skeleton," went on the savant, "and he told me he had come across it at the foot of a giant silk cotton tree in the ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... the Abbe Brigaud, folding his papers, "here is the first savant on record who has been known to make a bon-mot. It is true that ...
— The Conspirators - The Chevalier d'Harmental • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
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