Quotes About Scholarship

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Without books, I would certainly die.

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

I cannot live qithout books~ Thomas Jefferson

I can not live without books

I cannot live without books. --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.

Barton's pseudo-history is too valuable to the Christian nationalist machine to let facts and scholarship get in the way, and his standing with his own audience has continued to soar.

some of the most important work that we can do as scholars may more closely resemble contemporary editorial or curatorial practices, bringing together, highlighting and remixing significant ideas in existing texts than remaining solely focused on the production of more ostensibly original texts.

beauty contests, she said seriously, they gave out scholarship awards. "It's the biggest scholarship program in the world—they told us that at the Miss Sullivan City Pageant. I won a few hundred dollars, but the people who do well in their state pageants and then in Atlantic City get really big ones." "Well, Tory did well; she came in third.

Ninety-year-old Irving Fradkin, an optometrist from Fall River, Massachusetts, who started a grass-roots scholarship fund, flanked by a dozen grateful kids among the hundreds of thousands he'd sent to college.

Imagine – hundreds of years of constant learning. It's truly amazing.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

stacks of reference books spread outward from the corners of the room and toward the center like infectious diseases.

The gretteste clerkes been noght the wisest men.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l'ancienne ignorance?

Kenntnis der Mittel ohne eine eigentliche Anwendung, ja ohne Gabe und Willen, sie anzuwenden, ist, was man jetzt gemeiniglich Gelehrsamkeit nennt.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

It takes knowledge and experience to say precisely and consisely what is true and what is needed. Scholarship often excels in lofty learning and deep digging to emphasise what we knew all along. Adrian Hawkes' little book, based on real life, bring us what so many don't know and greatly need to know. I would not be ashamed to put it alongside many weighty volumes on my study shelves.

Non ho il genio della lite diceva. Indro Montanelli racconta Carlo Cattaneo

It's out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.

Unfortunately, an uninformed public tends to confuse scholarship with magicianry, and love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.