Quotes About Scholarship

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Generally speaking, people useless at everything else become academics

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

Not all 'schooling' is 'education,' and not all 'education' is 'schooling'.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.

Most people worth knowing enjoy reading.

Damn. How much time did you spend in the library? "I am a library.

Theory, recall, is the term for bad philosophy in literature departments.

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

The idea that literary theorists killed poetry dead because with their shrivelled hearts and swollen brains they are incapable of spotting a metaphor, let alone a tender feeling, is on of the more obtuse critical platitudes of our time.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

Judaism is not a dogmatic religion but one which loves debate, in which scholarship has played a big part. Scholars never agree about anything.

I'm starting the Juicy J Scholarship Foundation. I'm going to start doing a lot of different things trying to help out and give back.

Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.

Coming all the way from one scholarship offer, you know, Coach Bohl and Coach Vigen, they believed in me when I came out of junior college.

I didn't get paid to go to Kansas State.