Quotes About Scholarly

I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

He was an intense admirer of Swinburne and constantly reading his poems; John Addington Symond's works too, on the Greek authors, were perpetually in his hands. He never entertained any pronounced views on social, religious or political questions while in College; he seemed to be altogether devoted to literary matters.

Its insistence upon "knowledge" has no doubt made medieval Muslim civi lization one of great scholarly and scientifi c productivity, and through it, Muslim civilization made its most lasting contribution to mankind.

It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.

Chan has had the courage to subvert standard scholarly approaches to show that the very framework within which academics operate is itself an impediment to the leap of imagination required to meet the demands of our sublimely chaotic world.

The India-China intercourse began from the era of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Both interacted with each other peacefully and conducted scholarly and ideological exchanges. Both loved and admired each other; never had there been a slight clash.

My speeches in no way resemble verbal muck, as you have been pleased to put it in the presence of a lady, but rather a sequence of tightly packed syllogisms, the merit of which would be appreciated by such connoisseurs as Sextus Empiricus, Martianus Capella,4 and, for all I know, Aristotle himself.

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

For medieval women as well as men literary productivity goes hand in hand with the opportunity for education, at least a modicum of scholarly idleness, access to materials needed for work, some financial independence, patronage in social, religious, or financial form (...) With women writers, an added prerequisite often entails the freedom from repeated pregnancies and childbearing. [Introduction]

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail — the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions – and so I didn't pay much attention to those letters at all.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

When I first opened this book and saw all those scholarly footnotes, my heart leapt up as though I saw a host of golden daffodils.

You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested…

a brazen disdain for scholarly norms and the actual facts. But it makes a certain kind of sense: you have to tell lots of little lies to promote one big lie.

He typically divides the writing of a scholarly paper into three discrete tasks: analyzing the data, writing a full draft, and editing the draft into something publishable.)

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart.

Bernard: ... By the way, Valentina, do you want credit? - 'the game book recently discovered by.'? Valentine: It was never lost, Bernard. Bernard: 'As recently pointed out by.' I don't normally like giving credit where it's due, but with scholarly articles as with divorce, there is a certain cachet in citing a member of the aristocracy. I'll pop it in ad lib for the lecture, and give you a mention in the press release. How's that? Valentine: Very kind.

A proper scholarly method is intrinsically antifascist, in that it treats sceptically what fascists regard as beyond criticism.

I was a voracious reader, but part of what that taught me was that I was nowhere near as scholarly as I wanted to be. I was precocious, but how many years beyond your teens can you be called that with sincerity?

Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!