Scholarship Quotes

235 Scholarship quotes by 207 unique authors

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. — Jacques Barzun
Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis… — David Shields
Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship — Malcolm Bradbury
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than… — Camille Paglia
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds… — Simon Raven
I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For… — Jung Chang
Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet. — David Bergland
Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge. — William Zinsser
Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as… — William Lane Craig
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice.… — Daniel Nathans
Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory — Michel Chossudovsky
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an… — John Pople
The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least… — William B. Davis
The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most recent developments in… — Talal Asad
I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university. — Ellen Wilkinson
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest… — Weston La Barre
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance. — Ronald Biggs
I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship. — Scott Brooks
The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship… — Paul Monette
I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits. I would never… — Louise Mensch
A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible. — Jerry Buss
A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of… — Unknown Author
I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out… — Scott MacDonald

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