Quotes About Scholarship

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

The Judas grace (composed, they say, by Christopher Whitrid himself) is noted for its length and for the excellence of its Latinity.

I will note in passing that we shared a dislike for both writers and scholars who treat some body, or some body of work, as if they owned it.

Feminist scholarship has documented that the positive benefits masses of women have gained by entering the workforce have more to do with increased self-esteem and positive participation in community. No matter her class the woman who stayed at home working as a housewife was often isolated, lonely, and depressed.

The Reign of Edward III by W. Mark Ormrod; and Edward III by the same

Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the past.

The goods of the mind are at least as important as the goods of the body.

I'm about to enroll you in a class with Miss Manners. You'd qualify for a scholarship." "I'll

I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources.

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Honest to God, I do all the research on these books myself.

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

I was fortunate enough to get a scholarship to go to college in the United States. By the time I graduated, we had a full-blown civil war in both Liberia and Sierra Leone. I couldn't go home.

TCU - they told me they were going to offer me a scholarship and kind of drug it out. I told other schools I wasn't interested because I thought I was going to be there. They disappointed me and kind of hung me out to dry right before signing day.

Coming out of high school, however, I wasn't a decorated recruit. As a result, I found myself one month from signing day with only two scholarship offers and they were from the Mid-American Conference.

Whatever earnings I got from winning this silver medal, part will be used for my college education.

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.

As is natural for an academic, when I want to learn about something, I volunteer to teach a course on the subject.

from the ancient Chinese commentators found in the Giles edition. Of these four, Giles' 1910 edition is the most scholarly and presents the reader an incredible amount of information concerning Sun Tzu's text, much more than any other translation. The Giles' edition of the ART OF WAR, as stated above, was a scholarly work. Dr. Giles was a leading sinologue at the time and an assistant in the Department