Quotes About Scholarship

In Congress, there are some who are unashamed to aspire to eloquence, even to scholarship, but the only state legislator I ever knew who would not join in the mispronounceciation of a word for the sake of camaraderie with her fellows was former State Senator and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

I had this scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, and a couple of hundred extra dollars, and I showed up in Oregon and went to school there.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

A Babylonish dialectWhich learned pedants much affect.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

The father of English criticism.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

All intending students of Buddhism would do well to remember, however, that the heart of the Dharma, the spiritual essence that underlies and interpenetrates all doctrinal formulations, metaphysical disciplines, and aesthetic expressions, will be revealed, not in proportion to the bulk of our scholastic equipment, but only to the extent to which we have cultivated right motive.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

After all, education is the key to a higher civilization.

Is there anything more glorious than a professor? Forget about his molding the minds, the future of a nation - a dubious assertion; there's little you can do when they tend to emerge from the womd predestined for Grand Theft Auto Vice City.

I see you have them books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across someone who still reads, brother.

Canberra and Chicago, but it also allowed us to enjoy several cherished meetings with Professor Liu Ts'un-yan before his passing a few months later. My indebtedness to Professor Liu's scholarship should be apparent in the introduction

When young Mark Steinmark knelt before your feet — he who now leads these stirring men of Bruges — his busy active energetic spirit could not command your love. You chose a scholar, and now are vexed because he will not rise, quick from his books, a patriot ready-armed.

Now each man judges well the things he knows, and of these he is a good judge. And so the man who has been educated in a subject is a good judge of that subject, and the man who has received an all-round education is a good judge in general.

The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of

Of course it is impossible, or at any rate very difficult, properly to study anything whatever without the aid of printed books. But if you desire to understand the deeper depths of bridge or of boat-sailing you would not be deterred by your lack of interest in literature from reading the best books on bridge or boat-sailing. We must, therefore, distinguish between literature, and books treating of subjects not literary.

It is a shame that so few have the time or inclination for scholarship these days. There is much entertainment to be afforded in perusing the mistakes of our forbears.

Despite all the intellectual activity of the time there was in print no guide to the tongue, no linguistic vade mecum, no single book that Shakespeare or Martin Frobisher, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Izaak Walton, or any of their other learned contemporaries could consult.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors.