Quotes About Scholarship

psychologists are too polite with one another's ideas.

Indeed, men who have either quaffed or even tasted the liberal arts penetrate with their aid far more deeply into the secrets of the divine wisdom." - John Calvin

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

He had a love of books, for in books was recorded the knowledge of all those who had gone before him.

university," Joseph Scaliger (1540–1609). His expertise in the classics and biblical textual criticism made him one of the premier scholars of Europe. Other scholars included Jacob Arminius (1550–1609), Francis Gomarus (1563–1641), Simon Episcopius (1583–1643), and Johannes Coccejus (1603

There were always historians who said [historical Jesus research] can not be done because of historical problems. There were always theologians who said it should not be done because of theological objections. And there were always scholars who said the former when they meant the latter.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

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.

This sounded like it would be interesting for a while, but I didn't think I would have the freedom I expected to find in academia to follow my interests wherever they led.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

Books are just the source of information, not wisdom.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get some qualifications, and I ended up winning a choral scholarship to a cathedral school.

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

I'm a research queen.

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

So basically my, my foundation does this thing called gap coverage for, you know, students that apply for our scholarship program. What it means, it's not like quote, unquote 'full scholarship.' They apply for financial aid and, and FAFSA and things like that. Then whatever's not covered, my foundation covers.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

I was always fond of giving good education to people.