Quotes About Scholarship

Studies serve for delight , for ornaments and for ability.

Poverty of knowledge is the greatest disaster

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I got a scholarship, so I was getting my independence and not paying for school. And then here comes the NFL. 'Now you got an opportunity to get drafted? Guess we'll do that.' I did, all right.

I came from a poor Pennsylvania coal mining family and the only way I was going to get an education was through an athletic scholarship.

When I came to Arsenal, I was on a scholarship earning £80 per week away from my family.

I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to. I went to a school where I was there on a scholarship. So I think when you're on a scholarship, you always work a tad harder, or you want to work a tad harder than the next person.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it."

Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.

it is useful, or rather it is necessary, not to be indifferent about acquiring the works of earlier writers, but to make a collection of these, like a set of tools in farming. For the corresponding tool of education is the use of books, and by their means it has come to pass that we are able to study knowledge at its source.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

They smell of the lamp.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

I read books—read, read, one can learn everything from books.

Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.

Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

College works on the factory model and is, in many ways, not suited to training entrepreneurs. You put in a student, and out comes a scholar.

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

Pomp and pretense have nothing to do with thought and knowledge. Gowns and diplomas cannot impart the least syllable of wisdom. Forget this, and our American universities will be impoverished even as they amass riches from their students and benefactors.