Quotes About Scholarship

I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector. So brilliant that I could get a full scholarship to college and major in it, except why bother? I've already mastered the art.

Por lo general paga tributo a otra manía, insólita y funesta en la mujer: y es su malhadada afición a leer toda clase de libros, a aprender cosas raras, a estudiar a troche y moche, convirtiéndose en marisabidilla, lo más odioso y antipático del mundo.

One can begin with the expansion of the source base available to scholars brought about by the digital revolution. When I began work on Reconstruction, the World Wide Web did not exist (nor did email, so that scholars wasted a lot less of their time than nowadays).

Anti-Jewish and potentially anti-Jewish rhetoric goes unnoticed in so much Christian scholarship because the authors are not attuned to how their words sound to different ears. The

Gelehrte sind Menschen, die sich von normalen Sterblichen durch die anerworbene Fähigkeit unterscheiden, sich an weitschweifigen und komplizierten Irrtümern zu ergötzen.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship.

I was preparing to get into one of the IITs when I was in school. I was a good student.

My master's degree was in English literature.

I did a history degree once.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.

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

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.

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Word Studies in the Greek New Testament by Kenneth Wuest, 4 Volumes (Eerdmans).

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.