Quotes About Scholarship

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

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 [yet] unsolved ones.

Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

All I have learned, I have learned from books.

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.

Colleges at Oxford and Cambridge often sent their promising young fellows abroad to buy books for their libraries (which were tiny; it was thought a great achievement during Savile's time at Merton that he increased their number of printed books from 300 to 1,000), and in 1578 Savile was sent out on a long European tour.

Yes, I know that the word "school" derives from scholia, meaning leisure.

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive...

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

Scholarship was a hidey hole, a place where I could escape negative feelings. But as I learned more about the world, I realized that a life buried in books quite suited me.

Without Christopher Tolkien, not only would The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings look very different, but so would the face of Tolkien scholarship.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

Let's talk about the SAT. You got a 2280.

Every schoolboy knows it.

While the blustery Luther, with his categorical denials of any ambiguity in the Bible, stands as the champion of the humble reader, the reasoning Luther stands within the stream of creeds and scholarship that defines more soberly and narrowly the scope and nature of the Bible's clarity.