Quotes About Scholarship

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

I went to uni, and I studied commerce on a scholarship, and that was crazy and wild in and of itself.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

I tend to read non-fiction.

A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.

Political philosophers now must either work within Rawls' theory or explain why not.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

because mainstream scholarship simply accepted capitalism as the same as democracy and the only possible economic system, scholarship that emphasized political economy was left to those who were by definition radicals, which increased its likelihood of being stigmatized as "ideological" and "unscientific.

the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from collapsing. (p. 21)

Luckily, one of my teachers got me started on Plutarch and Montaigne.

Mr Davis knew any quantity of Greek, Latin, Algebra, and ologies of all sorts, so he was called a fine teacher; and manners, morals, feelings, and examples were not considered of any particular importance.

She is fond of books and it has turned her brain.

but he tolerated Strong out of respect for his scholarship as well as because of growing ties between their two families.

I never felt the need of scientific knowledge, have never felt it.

As one scholar put it, "No one has made more impact on the translation of the Bible into English than William Tyndale.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists, biologists, and neurologists, along with whatever blood can be got out of grammarians

I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important." "You

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.