Quotes About Scholarship

A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution.

A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution. —THOMAS JEFFERSON

A. N. Wilson in Jesus and Robin Lane Fox in The Unauthorized Version (among

It is not easy to become an educated person.

But there are other faculty here on campus who are not disposed to see notable scholarship ignored; and let it be known that, in the darkened, blood-strewn caverns of our offices, we are hewing our textbooks and keyboards into spears.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

No man is the wiser for his learning

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

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

One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

Books are men of higher stature.

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar

Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.