Quotes About Scholarship

The accumulation of knowledge is a powerful thing.

A football scholarship to the University of North Texas, where he'd stayed on to earn a PhD.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

Turn the pages of your Greek models night and day.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

None of these classy locutions mean anything different from the simpler ones they replace. They work ceremonially, not semantically. Writing in a classy way to sound smart means writing to sound like, maybe even be, a certain kind of person. Sociologists, and other scholars, do that because they think (or hope) that being the right kind of person will persuade others to accept what they say as a persuasive social science argument.

My schoolfellows were mostly stiff, illiterate lads, who, with a little bad Latin and worse Greek, plumed themselves mightily on their scholarship; and I had little inducement to form any intimacies among them; for, of all men, the ignorant scholar is the least amusing.

All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.

In the business of scholarship, evidence is far more flexible than opinion. The prevailing view of the past is controlled not by evidence but by opinion.

so long since my last stint in college, but my aptitude for academics came back to me quickly.

Saying of the Prophet Practice Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

Saying of the Prophet. Ink and Blood: The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

Un libro, para los Sufis, es un instrumento; cuando mucho, algo que suministra información.

Many a "learned" man is destroyed by ignorance and by the learning which is of no use to him' (Hadrat Ahmed ibn Mahsud, the Sufi).

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.

The best shop is of course a shop of knowledge; a bookshop.

The superior way of learnedness is to teach oneself of the world.

Christian scholarship will be a poor and paltry thing, worth little attention, until the Christian scholar, under the control of his authentic commitment, devises theories that lead to promising, interesting, fruitful, challenging lines of research.

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

I joined an Internet community of Victorian scholars, which meant that if I posted a question about 1875's lavender harvest, more than a thousand experts would ponder it.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.