Quotes About Scholarship

Good books replace the best universities.

education is more precious than that which we call so.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight.

The scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge

I was just getting more and more knowledgeable. And I was getting very good at bouncing three knowledge balls at once. I could sit in a doctoral exam, ask very sophisticated questions and look terribly wise. It was a hustle.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

Cram them full of non-combustable data, chock them so damn full of facts they feel stuffed, but absolutely brilliant with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

A man may know so much of everything that he knows little of anything.

celebrated Cistercian intellectual and

Dr. [Richard] Bentley's son reading a novel, the Doctor said, "Why read a book which you cannot quote?"

Few things are as essential as education.

It is astonishing that critical scholarship has asked forever about the identification of these store-house cities, but without ever asking about the skewed exploitative social relationships between owner and laborers that the project exhibits

You can't beat a good education!

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

I protest, for about the hundredth time, against the slipshod method of quoting a mere author's name, without any indication of the work of that author in which the alleged quotation may be found. Let us have accurate quotations and exact references, wherever such are to be found. A quotation without a reference is like a geological specimen of unknown locality.

The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.

The fuel of the brain is wisdom, without it you will get nowhere."

Gelehrte dirigieren ist nicht viel besser als eine Komödiantengruppe unter sich zu haben.

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

Second is the rise of higher criticism

decided that good scholarship demanded taking the losers' point of view, and that made the revision of claims about historic fact inevitable.

They fed him a diet made up entirely of knowledge.