Quotes About Scholarship

He was correct in saying that his academic shortcomings could be proven by the flavor of his writing. Latin experts point out errors and infelicities throughout Patrick's writings, and even in translation there are places where it is clear that Patrick's writing is a little clumsy.

Jews became the people whose heroes were teachers, whose citadels were schools, and whose passion was study and the life of the mind.

The text is candid about the dangers. In the heat of the moment, R. Yo?anan and Resh Lakish both say things they subsequently regret, with devastating consequences. But R. Yo?anan remains insistent that the search for truth can be no less important than the truth itself, that scholarship thrives on challenge, and that, as the sages put it, "rivalry between scribes increases wisdom

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

And learn, never stop learning what the wise teach

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

between 1995 and 2000 more than 12,000 new works on the Third Reich were published,

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful." "There's a literature about this?" "You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.

If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.

I came in for what I assumed would be a spanking and instead was leaving with a full music scholarship? For being an asshole? I was blown away!

And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.

Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred.

an investment in education gives the best returns

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest

Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

I read more history books than anything else.