Quotes About Scholarship

Alfonso the Wise of Castile (1252-1284)

Lynn Thorndike

We therefore owe our universities to the Middle Ages.

In the light of recent scholarship, Shostakovich's anti-Stalinism no longer seems surprising or controversial, and was not unusual for the intelligentsia of Moscow and (in particular) Leningrad.

Nor must you find fault with me if I often give you what I have borrowed from my various reading, in the very words of the authors themselves.

makes good grades, and

certainly luxurious for any student—1,800 euros

Nothing is more common in an age like this, when books abound, than to fancy that the gratification of a love of reading is real study.

Scholars gather in scholarly assemblages to hear in elegant statement what all have heard before. Again, it is not a negligible rite, for its purpose is not to convey knowledge but to beatify learning and the learned.

C'é infatti un numero considerevole di persone di cultura convinte che qualsiasi sforzo riuscito per rendere le idee vive, intellegibili e interessanti sia una manifestazione di scarso rigore professionale. E' questa la fortezza dentro la quale regolarmente si rifugiano.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Few things are as essential as education.

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

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

Education is an admirable thing.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

Study! Study ! Study! Get an education.

Education is very important. I think I understand education.

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

Education is the number one priority.