Quotes About Scholarship

There would be a course on the philosophy of history; another year the philosophy of Marxism, another the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, etc. All of these were presented in the light of the thought of St. Thomas.

The intelligentsia are those who have been educated beyond their intelligence.

The wise are above books.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

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.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

I cannot live without books.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

I think Theodore Adorno was profoundly ignorant. I think even Adorno's fans think he was bad at understanding popular music. He thought it was all jazz.

I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics.

A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

I think fondly of the rabbit holes I disappeared down when I researched papers for history and English because I couldn't find quite what I was looking for, or because I had to go through so much material to find examples for my thesis.

My thesis at school was on Wordsworth.

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly when it was written.

There is a new way of seeing him now. Because of that, there has been a lot of scholarship in Hemingway that is more thorough.