Quotes About Scholarship

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

To use a 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.

He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it

but in later life Chesterton made no secret of the fact that he didn't care for institutionalised learning, describing education as 'being instructed by somebody I did not know about something I did not want to know'.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.

Pourquoi ne pas profiter des contrepoisons de la civilisation, les bons livres.

I remember when the results of the All India Engineering exams came out. I ranked 7th. I even got a scholarship. But it was during the sixth semester of my engineering course that I decided to call it quits and pursue acting seriously.

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'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.

Bernard Bailyn

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

University of

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.