Quotes About Scholarship

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: "It was the footnotes".

The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

Pour faire de l'histoire, il faut savoir compter.

To study history is to study literature.

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.