Quotes About Scholarship

The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of years.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

Like a good academic, I thought books were for answers.

College: A fountain of knowledge where all go to drink.

We have read as many texts as possible.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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

The republic of letters.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

I will therefore spend this Preface, rather about those, from whom I have gathered my knowledge; For I am but a gatherer and disposer of other mens stuffe, at my best value.

To educate the people three things are needed: schools, and schools, and schools.

The most urgent task of any college is the transmission of knowledge, pure and simple.

I went to USC. I wasn't a rich kid or anything like that, so I had to get a scholarship. Went to USC; my first year, I took 26 units, so I got to have a nickname. Everyone goes, 'There's 26.' So I had a nickname. Having a nickname is a good thing because then you start to get popular, and you keep that going.

I was going to be a chemical engineer - I was a science nerd - that was the plan. I secretly applied to USC and NYU and got a scholarship to go to NYU based on a dumb animated short I made. It was a huge shock to me and my family.

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

To the extent that the academy is producing people who are talking utter nonsense, and imagining that it is sophisticated and enlightened - that system is a failure.

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.