Quotes About Scholarship

The scholarship that looks into the mind, imagination, and behavior of slaves is valuable. But equally valuable is a serious intellectual effort to see what racial ideology does to the mind, imagination, and behavior of maters.

To get a doctorate, you need only have a modicum of intelligence and the ability to grind it out. I'm afraid you may only be qualified to be an academic, not a pastor. Ministry is a lot harder than scholarship.

You could, if so inclined, read more Greek texts in the original Greek than the most prestigious Greek nobleman of classical times.

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.

While Jamnia did in fact become a center of Jewish scholarship after 70 CE, there was neither a synod that took place there, nor was the canonical nature of the writings of the Hebrew Bible as a whole discussed, but only the status of Qoheleth and Song of Songs.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

IT IS SAID with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who preceded him. What one of them does not know is known to another, and little remains truly unknown if one seeks far enough.

a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." ? George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

Reading maketh a full man.

If I had read as much as other men, I should have known no more than they.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.

It is important to remember that, in strictness, there is no such thing as an uneducated man.

is now evident that many events of biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in the Bible clearly never happened at all.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.