Quotes About Scholarship

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

The only scholarship that has any merit, I suppose, is what is useful to other people as well as oneself. The most meritorious of all is what is useful to other scholars, sometimes for generations.

many such documents of the period, I can say it was written in the Latin of that period and not in more modern form.

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

All the people at university were very aristocratic - except me, because I was on scholarship. And everyone there voluntarily wore suits and ties every day. And this was in the '60s!

My whole background was in voracious book-reading.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.

As learnèd commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Perlu ramai "intelektual", bukan "intelekjual".

Exponía una cantidad extraordinaria de conocimientos pésimamente asimilados.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

He wrote in the fly leaf: Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est! "That means 'Knowledge is power!' Oh, I do believe that, Marion.

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est!

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.