Quotes About Scholarship

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

These men were manuscript hunters, teachers, scribes, scholars, librarians, notaries, priests, and booksellers—bookworms who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and tried to imagine and to forge a different world: one of patriotic service, of friendship and loyalty, of refined pleasures, of wisdom and right conduct, of justice, heroism, and political freedom; a world in which a life in a better society could be lived in the fullest and most satisfying

including the partial copy of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things—unseen by scholars for more than five hundred years—and eight previously unknown speeches of Cicero.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.

As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.

I am not among the relatively few scholars who think that only that which is historically factual matters.

Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Science should be on tap, not on top.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful.

He had learned something from a book which others believed must be learned from doing or practice.

She was quite the reader of books, that I can tell you. She knew so much poetry. She was always quoting this or that verse in an off-handed manner. I try to remember the things she quotes, the poets she loved.

Ashlar: I have learned to live with a profound loneliness. I forget about it for years and years. Then it surfaces, the desire to be placed in context by somebody else. The desire to be known, understood, evaluated morally by a sophisticated mind. That was always the lure of the Talamasca, from the beginning, that I could go there and confide in my scholars, that we would talk late into the night.(...) Human beings very seldom survive without that kind of exchange, communication. Love.

We mean you no harm. We are scholars. We offer understanding. We offer shelter. We watch and we are always there.

Willa said, "What…?" Then she said, "You're starting your job this June, though." "Right." "You want to get married in two months?" "Or it could be three, if you need more time to plan the wedding," he said. "You mean before I finish school?" "You can finish in California." "But at Kinney I have a full scholarship!" "So? You could get a scholarship in California, too.

A man of scholarly accomplishment is inexpressibly splendid. Though he may be of dreadfully lowly rank and no joy to look at, he fills you with awe and envy at the way he can spend time in the presence of those at the very highest levels, as their tutor,4 and be called on by them for scholarly consultations. It's also splendid to see him praised for his preparation of a dedicatory prayer, or a memorial presented to the throne, or some preface to poetry.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

I spent my life in the library reading books.