Quotes About Scholarship

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.

All my knowledge comes from research.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

I take all knowledge to be my province.

Knowledge is of two kinds we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.

Knowledge is the best economy we can have.

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oilin studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.

Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.