Quotes About Scholarship

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

All knowledge is worth having

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Education is the best fertilizer for the mind.

If you are at school you must be royalty because you have lots of subjects.

we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.