Quotes About Scholarship

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

I think if there was a boarding school for personality makeovers, you'd probably get a scholarship.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

Reading is a foundation o every knowledge an all the pure and the wise thoughts.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Lessons in "eating American," it was thought, would not only breed good citizens but also improve the morale, scholarship, and health of the students.

I was a student of the civil law; but my soul was inflamed with the love of letters;

There never was a truly great man, who was not a lover and encourager of learning, as of the highest improvement of the human mind

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Such labored nothings, in so strange a style,Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.

By false learning is good sense defaced

A Lumberhouse of books in ev'ry head, For ever reading, never to be read.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.

For there is no gardening without humility, an assiduous willingness to learn, and a cheerful readiness to confess you were mistaken. Nature is continually sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.