Quotes About Scholarship

The greatest gift for yourself is to study to the highest degree.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.

My father used to say: If you steal from one book, you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books, you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.)

Wenn Du deine Weisheiten aus einem einzigen Buch klaust, bist Du ein Plagiator. Aber wenn Du aus zehn Büchern klaust, nennt man Dich einen Gelehrten, wenn Du aus dreißig oder vierzig Büchern klaust - einen hervorragenden Gelehrten

Only theory can turn a heap of facts into a tower of knowledge

Then he read the first sentence from the introduction: Without question this modern American dictionary is one of the most surprisingly complex and profound documents ever to be created, for it embodies unparalleled etymological detail, reflecting not only superb lexicographic scholarship, but also the dreams and speech and imaginative talents of millions of people over thousands of years—for every person who has ever spoken or written in English has had a hand in its making.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. • Benjamin Franklin

I don't think one has fully enjoyed the life of the mind until one has seen a celebrated scholar defend the "contextual" legitimacy of the burqa, or of female genital mutilation, a mere thirty seconds after announcing that moral relativism does nothing to diminish a person's commitment to making the world a better place.2

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned, and relate their unhappy lives and untimely deaths. To these mournful narratives I am about to add the Life of Richard Savage...

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

It is too well known, that the second George never was an Augustus to learning or genius.

I read the best of literature, science and philosophy

One might say that ambiguity is the diet of literary studies.

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Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.