Quotes About Scholarship

Growing up, I've always kinda been into academics.

Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.

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

I just think knowledge makes the world go 'round, man. So, if that makes me a geek, then cool.

Any man who reads is a fine one.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature.

If you don't know the difference between theology and religious studies, then you're a theologian.

One has to ask why a Christian scholar like Pierard was concerned about Schaeffer (or himself) being placed outside the mainstream of twentieth-century historical scholarship.

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

I hope that basketball gains momentum and kids understand that you can actually make a living from it. Not just the N.B.A. You can get a scholarship, a free degree - like, no student loan you have to pay off. That's huge in life. Once they realize that in New Zealand, I hope they get inspired.

The work I did with Artists Collective led me to a scholarship at Uconn... It led to me getting a scholarship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and a scholarship at Trinity Rep in Providence.

When I was 15 years old, my sister and I went on a trip to Europe. We went on scholarship because my mother didn't have the money to pay the full fare for the two of us, which ran into the thousands of dollars.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.

I was trying to become a legitimate trumpet player, and I had a scholarship to Eastman School of Music. I was really on my way. But I didn't take the scholarship. I got sidetracked, because when summers came around, I started playing with a rock-and-roll band.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

I played soccer in college, at this little school in North Carolina called Campbell. It was the only place in the world where they would offer to pay for everything.