Quotes About Scholarship

Things to know from books to read

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

Al die beurzen, prijzen en stipendia,' zei hij, 'ben je werkelijk zo naïef te denken dat die bij begaafde studenten terechtkomen? Trouwens, wat is een begaafde student? Een begaafde kontenlikker, als je het mij vraagt.

No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.

After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena);

Whatever their many vices, wrote Shushtari, the English welcomed and rewarded talent: 'the English have no arbitrary dismissal,' he noted, 'and every competent person keeps his job until he writes his own request for retirement or resignation. More remarkable still is that they take part in most of the festivals and ceremonies of Muslims and Hindus, mixing with the people. They pay great respect to accomplished scholars of whatever sect.

Philosophy is for the few.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

His early researches were pursued partly in the spirit of a young gentleman's entertainment, which happened to be science instead of fighting or politics or gambling.

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

William J. Bouwsma

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

Marx wrote his dissertation on Epicurus, and he was familiar with Greek thought. Aristotle, as you will see, provides a frequent anchor for his arguments.

There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.

Nothing is more important than a good education.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.