Quotes About Scholarship

Por desgracia, un público no informado tiende a confundir la erudición con la magia, y la vida amorosa parece ser el factor que requiere mayor cantidad de argucias.

Lord Dorwin thought the way to be a good archaeologist was to read all the books on the subject—written by men who were dead for centuries.

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

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.

It's never too early to start thinking about tuition.

I went to school here at the University of San Carlos for my primary and high school. I was valedictorian in grade school, and I was number one in high school, and because of that, I received free tuition in school. I thank the school for that.

In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.

Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.

In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.

It seems simple to define what a library is—namely, it is a storeroom of books.

Quoting a letter by Charles F. Lummis]: books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

Essentially I am a history geek trapped somewhere between the creative arts and academic scholarship. The natural result of this is to become an author of historical fiction.

Daniel Dennett, a consciousness theorist, famously said that scholars are a library's way of making another library.

Only those books which consistently produce high profits are allowed to survive, and a number of "good books" have slipped quietly out of print. It is less likely than it used to be for a scholar or a teacher or a librarian - or a child - simply to come in contact with a book which is neither brand new nor extremely popular.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

I got a full-ride scholarship to the University of South Carolina for track.