College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

— Alice Walker

“I have lived through much and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet, secluded life in the country…

— Tolstoy

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only…

— Walt Whitman

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned…

— David Brainerd

“Scholars have argued that without humanism the Reformation could not have succeeded, and it is certainly difficult to imagine the Reformation occurring without the…

— Steven Ozment

But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form…

— J. I. Packer

Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of…

— Immanuel Kant

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress,…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the reason for…

— Daniel Seligman

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

— Al Pacino

By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does…

— Maria Montessori

The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social…

— Ludwig von Mises