Quotes About Scholarship

Don't be afraid to study hard: knowledge never exhausts the mind.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

The problem with becoming a public intellectual is that over time you grow more and more public but less and less intellectual.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

A scholar knows no boredom.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

The academic community is an attractive working environment,

the modern generation being flippant and superficial. He says that we are losing the old ideals of earnest endeavour and true scholarship; and particularly is this falling-off noticeable in our disrespectful attitude towards organized authority. We no longer pay a seemly deference to our superiors. I

You should see the way this college is studying!

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission.

It is a fact that we historians are interested in what is partly a reflection of ourselves, perhaps a part of ourselves we would rather not examine except through the medium of scholarship; it is also true that as we steep ourselves in our interests, they become more and more a part of us.

the artes liberales: music, mathematics, history, and so on.

Indeed, both the scholar and the student share the prosperity.

Books. Knowledge. Years of reading. All of which means? I know stuff.

I had accidentally stumbled onto something much more surreal—a whole fraternity of beleaguered and bandaged academics who had produced scholarship offensive to one identity group or another and who had consequently been the subject of various forms of shout-downs.

I read quickly, flitting and sipping, skipping the boring bits and seizing on the oddities and inconsistencies which are often ignored by the scholars since they interfere with the measured and coherent approach to the matter at hand.

I'm saving money like there's no tomorrow because, when I was at Juilliard, I had so little. They gave me a full scholarship because I didn't come from a wealthy family or anything.