Quotes About Scholarship

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in mens clothes.

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

Markaz Dirasat al-Adab al-'Arabii wa-Dar al-Huda 2001; 16al-Suyuti, al-Rasa'il al-'ashar, Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al- 'Ilmiya, 1409 AH/1989 CE, p. 54; 'Ali ibn Taj al-Din al-Sinjari, al-karam fii akhbar Makka wa'l-bayt wa-wulat

In appealing for Christian scholarship, the point is not primarily academic respectability, and certainly not the mindless pursuit of publication for its own sake that bedevils the modern university. The point is rather that the comprehensive reality of Christianity itself demands specifically Christian consideration of the world we inhabit, whether that consideration is of social theory, the history of science, other historical changes, the body, the arts, literature, or more.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

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

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

educated in the 'liberal arts' (literally 'the intellectual pursuits suited to the free')

London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books or the Times Literary Supplement

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

How I fevered to study the seven liberal arts: the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.

having a Ph.D. and working in a university is neither necessary nor certainly sufficient to provide one with unquestionable authority, no matter what the subject.

Reading is the best cure for ignorance.

In 1850, there were only eight graduate students in the entire United States.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

All jargon of the schools.

the primary purpose of college is to become a learner.

El saber fue, por mucho tiempo, nuestra mayor y más compartida pasión.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Love makes you say stupid stuff, though I don't think it technically lowers your chances of a scholarship.

Harry Mount hints at the possibility that I was admitted to Magdalen in 1960 because my father had been senior scholar there a quarter of a century earlier. I was, in fact, the winner of an open scholarship; Mr Mount should learn the difference between genetics and nepotism.