Quotes About Scholarship

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Knowledge itself is the highest reward of knowledge.

He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.

He used his intellect as he used his legs: to carry him somewhere else. He studied astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, numerology, fortification, divination, organ building, metallurgy, medicine, perspective, the kabbala, toxicology, philosophy, and jurisprudence. He kept his interest in anatomy and did a dissection whenever he could get hold of a body. He learned Arabic, Catalan, Polish, Icelandic, Basque, Hungarian, Romany, and demotic Greek.

No scientist ever begins his work de novo; while he works with the methodological questioning of what he has already known he builds on knowledge already achieved and engages in a movement of advance. But it is one of the worst characteristics of theological study, whether in biblical interpretation or in dogmatic formulation, that every scholar nowadays thinks he must start all over again, and too many give the impression that no one ever understood this or that until they came along.

She was doing a PhD in English literature,' I pointed out. 'I know zip about English literature, Frank. I got an A in my Leaving Cert, but that's it. I don't speak the jargon.

The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

If a man's house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books.

The account presented below is patterned after the work of Christia Mercer of Columbia University. Her book Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development, published in 2001 by Cambridge University Press, is a formidable work of forensic scholarship that can in no way be improved by my attempts to summarize