Quotes About Scholarship

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...

Woe to our time, for the study of letters has perished from among us.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality.

This radical neglect of biology limits the ability not just of queer Theory but of all scholarship on these topics to rigorously investigate socialized aspects of gender presentation and expectations - while rendering potentially valuable insights from queer Theory nearly completely irrelevant to those serious about such questions.

If one makes himself master of one vital book, he shall never become a commonplace man.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially." ? Donna Tartt, The Secret History

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. ( Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne , 8 September 1935)

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.

The whole of the Trivium was, in fact, intended to teach the pupil the proper use of the tools of learning.

He knew that the fuel his brain craved could only be found in a proper university.

Man I studied phychology, Theology, Archeology, the nervous system, The Brain, algerba, Anatomy, read the Bible four times in its entirety, politics, and so much more.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

A remarkably disciplined scholar, Jefferson spent money on books the way less purposeful young men spent it on whiskey or women.

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men—although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

Philosophy is for the few.

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

When I was in the Mississippi Legislature, we worked to establish the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program to help address the shortage of physicians in the rural areas of the state.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.