Quotes About Scholarship

Slaves of wisdom are masters of many.

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

Education illuminates us with the lights of knowledge and wisdom.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.

I was in the business school. I was on the executive board of the business school and I kinda gave all that up and forewent a full scholarship to walk on at the University of Maryland. I just wanted to challenge myself, play at the top level and see if I could hang with the big boys, kinda get that national spotlight and play in prime time games.

I remember as a kid liking long, funny words. And often being into things like that can be perceived as square. But actually, as we know now that we're adults, it's really cool. The more knowledge you have, the better.

I had full rank scholarship to the University of Michigan, which anybody in the north will tell you, I don't know anyone that has had that at the University of Michigan, which tells you that I was a stand up student.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

Every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

The interval is immense between corporeal qualifications and sciences: the body in a moment is extinct, but knowledge endureth to the end of time.

He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.