Quotes About Scholarship

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.

This is what matters to me: the story of the scholarship boy who returns home one summer from college to discover bewildering silence, facing his parents. This is my story.

That's a relief. I hate it when scholars disagree.

the enlightenment of mankind." Books, and the wisdom

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

Here's a tip more academic authors could heed: don't make "originality" your only goal. If there is one common failure in letters from first-time authors it's the suggestion that nothing like this manuscript has ever been attempted. If you've found a dark corner of the field to mine as your own, you might have lucked into something valuable and overlooked

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

That unlettered small-knowing soul.

You two are book-men.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

No matter how revolutionary people were, he said, they could not live without books. Without books, we would not understand the world; without books, we could not develop; without books, nature could not serve humanity.

People are often surprised to hear that Romani is in fact a fully fledged language just like any other, that it has its origins in India, that it is related to Sanskrit, an ancient language associated with Indian scholarship and religion, and that it has been preserved by the Romani populations through oral traditions and in a variety of dialects for many centuries.

Modern biblical scholarship arose in European universities, yet in religion departments from Geneva to Oxford, Jews were prohibited. The professors of Bible were of Christian belief or education.

I address J as a living writer in greater detail, as well as the Hebraic culture in which she attained her scholarship, in my previous books appearing after The Book of J (in particular, Abraham: The First Historical Biography, The Book of David, and The Lost Book of Paradise). And in the The Book of J, coauthored with Harold Bloom, I began to describe the textuality of J's narrative, while both Bloom and I first addressed the likelihood of J being a woman.

Knowledge was the most valuable of all treasures. No wonder

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death]

The world belongs to those who read.