Quotes About Scholarship

Here we are [at BYU] doing what is not done in any other major university of which I am aware. We are demonstrating that faith in the Almighty can accompany and enrich scholarship in the secular. It is more than an experiment. It is an accomplishment.

Despise school and remain a fool.

The democracy of the intellect comes from the printed book…

All knowledge is worth having

A curious leveling takes place: the common people learn words and ideas hitherto not familiar and not interesting and discuss them like intellectuals while others neglect their usual concerns - art, philosophy, scholarship - because there is only one compelling topic, the revolutionary Idea.

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

My father has his master's degree. My uncle does as well.

I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia.

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

I have taught a mixture of undergraduate and graduate courses, and found them both stimulating.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Having a nice library doesn't make you smart. Don't buy books and stack them up in your library

The gift of literature is the grace of knowledge.

Reading leads to knowledge and wise ways of living.

Reading is the fountain of all knowledge.

Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.

The more you read, the better you are informed.

I hunger for books, I search for knowledge.

Mastering facts is knowledge. Mastering knowledge is wisdom.

The burning lamp is found in reading books.

A scholar's pen is more valuable than a warrior's sword.