Quotes About Scholarship

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.

I was in school for a little bit at Rutgers for political science, but it was very loose.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people back into the British past. Those of us who write about this history have long been familiar with this.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

I positively encourage time abroad to anybody. It's worth taking the time to suss out which countries in the world are well funded for your subject and look for opportunities there.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

There are all kinds of historians and scholars who say that Brutus could have been a son of Caesar. That's definitely a possibility. He's a generation younger than Caesar.

The creation of the 'Goldie Scholars' program is an acknowledgment that knowledge isn't enough.

University research is crucial to our future as a nation.

It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle.

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

If your going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

Learn to use the knowledge of the past and you will look like a genius, even when you are really just a clever borrower.

You must value learning above everything else.

I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

teaching was the most rigorous form of learning.

Bistami watched his fellow scholars around the fire in the evenings, intent on a point of doctrine, or the questionable isnad of a hadith, and what that meant, arguing with exaggerated punctilio and little debater's jokes and flourishes, while a pot of thick hot coffee was poured with solemn attention into little glazed clay cups, all eyes gleaming with firelight and pleasure in the argument; and he thought, these are the Muslims who make Islam good.

Education is a thing to be proud of.