Motive Quote by Robert Anton Wilson Download Open image ““Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.”” — Robert Anton Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Motive Motive Scholarship Prove Oneself Scholarship Usual Motive
“It takes knowledge and experience to say precisely and consisely what is true and what is needed. Scholarship often excels in lofty learning and… — George Canty Copy Share Image
“Prime yourself for success and demonstrate to others that you are diligent, reliable, and trustworthy.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Stay inquisitive with a thirst for knowledge. Become a scholar in your field and lead the way for others.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“There was something alienating about being on scholarship, a tense mixture of gratefulness and otherness. You're talented, the money said, and we want you… — Riley Redgate Copy Share Image
“a desired qualification must be preceded by the endeavor to prove that it is deserved” — Shubha Vilas Copy Share Image
“Eagerly wanted to prove something is one sign of lack of self-dependence.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“I want to encourage others to believe in their own talents, to stand up for their convictions, which they have developed by means of… — Franz Welser-Möst Copy Share Image
“Without the willingness to study, how can you become a scholar?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
“In almost any subject, your passion for the subject will save you. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Fathom your motivation so that you understand what you are prepared to do and why.” — David Amerland Copy Share Image
“the capital commandments of self-interest, self-importance, self-enrichment, and self-perpetuation.” — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach is useful.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor in the… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
