It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no…

It [knowledge] is clearly related to information, which we can now measure; and an economist especially is tempted to regard knowledge as a kind…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no…

— Hilary Mantel

The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained,…

— Northrop Frye

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

— Moliere

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.

— Umar

Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what they have…

— Marilynne Robinson

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

— Jonathon Keats

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

“I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

— Henry David Thoreau

Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

— Mason Cooley

I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they…

— Gregory Pardlo

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

— William Zinsser