Quotes About Scholarship

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. [Lat., Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima.]

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

Much learning doth make thee mad.

All wish to be learned but no one is willing to pay the price.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the church's prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.