Scholarship Quotes

235 Scholarship quotes by 207 unique authors

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge. — Holbrook Jackson
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things. — Pietro Aretino
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do… — Jacob Bronowski
Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination. — Marvin Olasky
In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness. — Israel Shenker
I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that… — Indra Nooyi
When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an… — Elizabeth Olsen
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university… — Trevor Nunn
Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped… — David Rubenstein
I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me… — David Rubenstein
The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount… — Stacy Schiff
I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always… — Zoe Lister-Jones
I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship. — Isaiah Mustafa
Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status,… — Edwin Newman
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program… — Michio Kaku
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. — Isabella Rossellini
I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was… — Jim Courier
When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I… — Chandra Wilson
Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar… — Nina Bawden
I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes… — Taylor Branch
Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our… — Andrew Card
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. — Juan Cole
I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it.… — Garret Dillahunt
I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced.… — Dick Gephardt

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