Scholarship Quotes

235 Scholarship quotes by 207 unique authors

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to… — Charles M. Vest
We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and… — Malcolm Wallop
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the… — John Charles Polanyi
I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of… — G. H. Hardy
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to… — William Thurston
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to… — David Lehman
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. — Sylvia Plath
The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives. A person raised… — William Lane Craig
This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of… — Stanislav Grof
There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a… — Leland Ryken
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written… — Robert P. Crease
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
Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning. — Henry David Thoreau
A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art. — Michel de Montaigne
Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to… — Allan Bloom
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden. — Allan Bloom
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. — William Hazlitt
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. — William Hazlitt
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn. — Bertolt Brecht
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no… — Samuel Johnson
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts. — Anatole France

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