Quotes About Scholarship

Only historians tell you what they thought. Research workers stick to what they did.

Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously

that the bulk of his scholarship was out of my grasp); as

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Academy, Plato's own school, for hundreds of years – until it came to an end in the first century BC – took its task to be that of arguing against the views of others without relying on a position of one's own.

Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.

I grew up playing basketball in the inner city of Seattle, and by the time I was a senior, I earned a full scholarship to the University of Denver.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

shop me to the bursar.

Learned fools exceed all fools

Adorn thy mind with knowledge, for knowledge maketh thy worth.

Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom.

The best decoration in the world is a room full of books.

Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today. False teachers use high-sounding words that seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty . . .adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies.

We value education, but we do not understand its history.

The defense of the great works of Western literature can no longer be undertaken by central institutional power though it is hard to see how the normal operation of learned institutions, including recruitment can manage without them.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.

Modern biblical scholarship has demonstrated that the Bible is the product of cultures whose values and beliefs about the origin, nature, and purpose of our world are no longer held to be relevant, even by most Christians and Jews.

I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.