Quotes About Scholarship

His textbooks

One of the great advantages of having a library,your eminence, is that it is full of books.

The other corollary of this principle is an understanding of scriptural interpretation not merely as an academic exercise, but as an ecclesial practice. For theological interpreters, even the most technical and sophisticated academic biblical interpretation has the church as its primary location and ultimate focus. Good theological biblical scholarship is a form of prayer, communion , and, most importantly, service to the church.

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know

Humanistisen alan yliopisto-opinnot eivät tunnetusti johda mihinkään, paitsi lahjakkaimmilla opiskelijoilla humanistisen alan yliopistonopettajan uralle. Meillä on toisin sanoen hassunkurinen järjestelmä, jonka ainoa tavoite on omaneuvoinen lisääntyminen ja jossa jätteen osuus on yli yhdeksänkymmentäviisi prosenttia.

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case it prepares you for a career teaching the academic study of literature—it

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education.

Unfortunately many serious thinkers devote all their mental effort to becoming well-known scholars, but in the meantime they forget their initial purpose in scholarship. In

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Without external encouragement - which could sometimes become very strong - the world's literary and scholarly store would be scanty indeed. "Publish or perish" is nothing new; at the University of Bologna a professor was required to present his yearly disputation for publication and was heavily fined for dereliction.

There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well. The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of learning and folly which might be applied to the bookish but poorly read of all ages. They are all sophomores .

Forebearence is the dress of a scholar, so do not get yourself undressed of it.

I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

Taqliding madhhabs is haram, but do taqlid my taqliding of someone taqliding another's opinion against taqliding madhhabs." meta-#wtfiqh

The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is time to end this standoff, and to reestablish a hermeneutic of trust (itself a sign of the gospel!) in place of the hermeneutic of suspicion which the church has so disastrously borrowed from the postmodern world.

One of the great gains of biblical scholarship this last generation, not least because of our new understanding of first-century Judaism, is our realization that the temple was central to the Jewish worldview.

This is not psychoanalysis. It is history.

Anyone who has worked within biblical scholarship knows, or ought to know, that we biblical scholars come to the text with just as many interpretative strategies and expectations as anyone else, and that integrity consists not of having no presuppositions but of being aware of what one's presuppositions are and of the obligation to listen to and interact with those who have different ones.