Quotes About Scholarship

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

Saying of the Prophet.Ink and Blood:The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

I longed to devote my life to something valuable with a fervor that would consume my being. Young people today probably think the same way. But in our time we were not left to ourselves as they are. All of us believed in some kind of god. We believed in a scholar or in scholarship itself; we believed that right actually exists. All that kind of thing has been swept away, and philosophy, religion and morality must be created anew, from the ground up.

Penyakit orang-orang 'muda' yang baru menapakkan kakinya beberapa langkah di dunia ilmu keislaman adalah mereka tidak mengetahui kecuali satu pendapat dan satu sudut pandang yang mereka dapatkan dari satu orang syaikh. Mereka membatasi diri dalam satu madrasah dan tidak bersedia mendengar pendapat lainnya atau mendiskusikan pendapat-pendapat lain yang berbeda dengannya..

Despite its veneer of impartial scholarship, Butz's book is replete with the same expressions of traditional anti-Semitism, philo-Germanism and conspiracy theory as the Holocaust denial pamphlets printed by the most scurrilous neo-Nazi groups. -- Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, page 126

Knowledge is of more value than gold

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

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.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.