Quotes About Scholarly

While Spinoza did not condemn marriage, he rejected it for himself, perhaps fearing the 'ill temper of a woman', and in any case recognizing in matrimony a threat to his scholarly interests.

When historian of science Naomi Oreskes surveyed all peer-reviewed papers on climate change published between 1993 and 2003 in the world's leading scientific journal, Science, she found that there were 980 supporting the idea of human-induced global warming and none opposing it.

The scholarly term is Intermittent Variable Rewards. Which simply means that unpredictability has great power to addict. Because we have an innate evolutionary compulsion to know.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

Now, academics are not always the easiest people to talk to, and the scholarly papers aren't always the easiest papers to read, but frankly, psychology papers, especially papers and books on terrorism, are very easy to read, and journalists should be reading them.

Sorcerer' had certainly not been on Pen's former list of scholarly ambitions, but then, neither had 'theologian', 'divine', 'physician', 'teacher', 'lawyer', or any other high trade taught there—yet another reason for Rolsch's dubiousness about it all. The Bastard's Order must have a separate seminary of some sort . . . ?

Cazaril trusted he appeared scholarly enough to fool the young ladies

My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law Reviews were student-operated publications.

The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.

WHAT IS A witch? The standard scholarly definition of one was summed up in 1978 by a leading expert in the anthropology of religion, Rodney Needham, as 'someone who causes harm to others by mystical means'.

ACROAMATICAL  (ACROAMA'TICAL)   adj.[   Gr. I bear.]Of or pertaining to deep learning; the opposite of exoterical.

Intelligent people are always the best encyclopaedia.

I say to you that scholarly fellows [1830] Are like the cattle on an arid heath: Some evil spirit leads them round in circles, While sweet green meadows lie beneath.

The problem is that, slowly but surely across the past two hundred years of scholarly research, we have learned that the gospels are exactly what they openly and honestly claim they are. They are not history, though they contain history. They are not biography, though they contain biography. They are gospel—that is, good news. Good indicates that the news is seen from somebody's point of view—from, for example, the Christian rather than the imperial interpretation.

Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because neither do they contend about matters of fact nor can they determine their controversies by any certain witnesses or judges.

Googlepedia, The Global Encyclopedia can surpass and prevail all other encyclopedias to write vulnerably free, neutral, honest, and fair content written by scholarly contributors, which no one will be able to delete.

Sensible and scholarly figures enjoy and praise literary writings; conversely, others focus on the writer's pics, especially when it is a beauty of the female, which mostly prevails knowledge and ability.

The scholarly world rejects Wikipedia as a reliable website that most of the world's silly clowns contribute their ignorance, within the garbage of Wiki-Rules, which also, indeed, contradict each other.

To prove mastery requires significant scholarly knowledge; otherwise, it mirrors the tomfoolery.

There is a big scholarly literature on the high correlation between creative genius and mental suffering, which Sigmund Freud termed "the problem of the creative artist."[12]

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

spoke of the coming of the kingdom of God, he meant that "the end" was at hand. In the near future, God would dramatically intervene in the world, bring ordinary history to a close, and establish the everlasting kingdom. Scholarly opinion about this has changed in the last twenty years or so. Along with probably a majority of contemporary scholars, both Tom and I (for somewhat different reasons) reject this understanding.51