Quotes About Scholarship

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

While it is a truism that man has not learned much more than the sexual act, and that fire burns when you stick your hand into it, it behooves the scholar to immerse himself in the analyses of the problem, rather than the problem itself. One

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: "It was the footnotes".

Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks. But they should. They should.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

A person without learning is like a beast dressed up in man's clothes in the field.

Collège de France,

architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

medhermeneutical

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.

and that he delighted in Flaubert and Pater, read Homer in the original and not as a schoolmaster reads him for the grammar.

I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you cant afford it, you can get a scholarship.

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

Militant might in women is named as unfeminine aggression; scholarship in women is diminished into a domestic art. Religious life is viewed as sexual chastity rather than spiritual awakening to an international philosophy.

Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis would be examined by a man, and whose book would be published by a male publisher and reviewed by a male critic. This could not change until women were admitted to universities and colleges. When women could train as historians in the universities, they could for the first time research, write, and publish scholarly history.

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

pedagogical

what Shakespeare was to the drama of England, Plato was to ancient philosophy