Quotes About Scholarship

The Philebus appears to be one of the later writings of Plato

Tota est scientia Knowledge is all

no classes or exams, just acres of time in which to research and write—had swiftly revealed itself to be a glorified form of orphanhood.

I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

I never, never in my life took a course in economics.

I had the offer of places at Leicester and Loughborough to study financial economics.

I just want to be educated.

There is a difference between being educated and academics.

I didn't want to be an electrical engineer. But I did want to go to college. And they said they'd help me pay for it if I'd major in electrical engineering.

I read good. I was an English major.

Education is equally important in one's life.

I never say no to any event that is associated with education.

Scholarship was, above all else, honored among the Jews—scholarship not as "pure" activity, not as intellectual release, but as the pathway, sometimes treacherous

People would ask him what a Gobelin was, why the Jacobins had betrayed Robespierre, how rayon was manufactured, what made a section caesarean. Grandfather had all the answers.

I have studied these things - you have not.

If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own.

Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it. But in connection with the Bible, such scholarly restraints are somehow regarded as out of place.

In the end to add to the sum of human knowledge is the only thing a man can be truly proud of.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

ability to answer their own questions… Gradually, they acquire a skill shared by the greatest scholars in the world: the ability to educate themselves…

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.