Quotes About Scholarship

I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

I did make National Honors Society in high school.

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

This leads us to note further, that in any case the reader of an English Bible is already involved in interpretation. For translation is in itself a (necessary) form of interpretation. Your Bible, whatever translation you use, which is your beginning point, is in fact the end result of much scholarly work. Translators are regularly called upon to make choices regarding meanings, and their choices are going to affect how you understand.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

It takes courage to throw off unproductive methods and approaches that the majority of scholars in your field have unquestioningly yoked themselves to for decades.

Egyptologic"—i.e. that special form of reasoning, with a built-in double standard, deployed only by Egyptologists.

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.

In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

You get a lot of accommodations for being on scholarship, but there is too much money floating around in the NCAA to not be giving it to the people earning it.

I went into academia thinking that there'd be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.

Die Hegelliteratur stellt Hegel gern als jemanden dar, der ganz eigene Ideen und Meinungen hat. Das ist nicht nur falsch; Hegel hätte es peinlich gefunden.

The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century.

The Miss America pageant is very pro-education. They give the winner a full college scholarship. Which is just what Harvard needs, more bulimics who play the ukulele.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

She became interested in performing when she was six and won a scholarship to the school. If she hadn't, she couldn't have gone.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.