Quotes About Scholarship

A scholar as authoritative as Richard Rhodes97 was still writing in 1995 that the Soviets had over forty ICBMs in 1961, ten times more than they actually had.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there.

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

I'm all for education - in fact, I have spent my career extolling its virtues.

I was pretty good at studies and when I had come to NSD for my interview, I'd lied that I have got a scholarship to study abroad. I told my family that I had a visa interview, but I was actually here for the interview at NSD.

Alas, this industrialized twelve-tone horse, dull on the outside and empty inside, constantly being perfected and dragged to a new Troy in shadow of an ideological war long since fought and won by responsible minds like Schoenberg, with neither systems nor scholarship for armor!

I often ask myself whether my decision to pursue a life of scholarship -- if decision is the right word -- was a result of an essential poverty of the soul, or if the desiccation which I sometimes suspect is the one truly distinguishing mark of my scholarship was an inevitable consequence of that decision.

Education makes all the difference.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Education does not necessarily make one wise?