Scholarship Quotes · Page 4

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

— Pietro Aretino

I wasn't given a scholarship out of high school, and that allowed me to learn what hard work was early on.

— Scottie Pippen

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

— Harold Pinter

I was a walk-on at Maryland, I had to earn my scholarship and starter spot, and the things that've come after.

— Mojo Rawley

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

— James Russell Lowell

I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

— Elie Wiesel

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

— Richard Levins

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

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

Coming all the way from one scholarship offer, you know, Coach Bohl and Coach Vigen, they believed in me when I came…

— Josh Allen

I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit,…

— Tracy Kidder

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship.…

— Taylor Branch

There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the…

— Tim Tebow

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was…

— Alex Flinn

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of…

— Chanakya

The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in…

— Noam Chomsky

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to…

— John Hope Franklin

... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What I didn't know at the time [of my scholarship] was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class.…

— Warren MacKenzie

Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits…

— George Pattison

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school.…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to…

— Vivienne Ming

“I met them in Minneapolis when the Society hosted a brunch for this year's winners and gave us these oversized checks they…

— Brian Malloy

We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial…

— Robert K. Merton

The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most…

— Talal Asad

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

“Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture, exploring its nook…

— Nicholas Wolterstorff

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 played baseball when I was younger, but the idea of the college scholarship enticed me to switch over to softball.

— Jessica Mendoza

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

— Ronald Biggs

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

— William Zinsser

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

— Edwin Moses

I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

— Malala Yousafzai

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

— Sylvia Plath

I advocate that schools should put a value on what a scholarship is worth and then pay the athlete monthly.

— George Mikan

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

— Anonymous

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

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

— Emeril Lagasse

People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.

— Jesse Jackson