Scholarship Quotes · Page 8

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory

— Michel Chossudovsky

After I did my graduation in mechanical engineering, I got a scholarship to go to the U.S. to do my master's. So…

— Karthi

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and…

— David Lehman

When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the…

— Noam Chomsky

My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of…

— Wayne Gretzky

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

— Franz Grillparzer

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and…

— David Duke

Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always…

— J. William Fulbright

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have…

— Trevor Nunn

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

— Umar

Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in…

— Pamela Druckerman

Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now…

— Noam Chomsky

“I did say that to deny the existence of evil spirits, or to deny the existence of the devil, is to deny…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh.

— John Tiffany

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell…

— Barbara Mikulski

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided…

— Stephen Mangan

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man.…

— Jamie Foxx

“Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider…

— Charles E. Glassick

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took…

— Sasha Velour

I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I…

— Doug Flutie

“It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other, and accordingly I have…

— Richard Fletcher

It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith…

— Thomas Chalmers

I remember when the results of the All India Engineering exams came out. I ranked 7th. I even got a scholarship. But…

— Sushant Singh Rajput