Quotes About Scholarship

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I don't care how somebody gets their education, as long as they have one.

Education doesn't make you smarter.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

An athletic scholarship shouldn't be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

Latin is an international language.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name—he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.

Henry James escribió Los papeles de Aspern

The most satisfying of languages, Latin.

You couldn't beat him away from Greek with a stick.

There are three types of student: The golden student pays and loans, the silver student pays but does not learn, the bronze student learns but does not pay.

J.P. Moreland

New Testament scholar Richard Hays notes that there is not "an exact equivalent for 'homosexual' in either Greek or Hebrew."22 The Bible, in its original Hebrew and Greek, has no concept like our present understanding of a person with a homosexual orientation. Indeed, the concept of an ongoing sexual attraction to people of one's own sex did not exist in European or American language until the late nineteenth century.23

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

La modestia conviene al sabio, pero no a las ideas que posee y que debe defender

It makes no sense at all if people consider the one who lacks knowledge and science as a prosperous person.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Lynn Thorndike