Top Scholarship Quotes

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

Scholarship Definition

(n.) The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.

(n.) Literary education.

(n.) Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student.

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

For every well-attested, heavily researched, and eminently authoritative argument made about the historical Jesus, there is an equally well-attested, equally researched, and equally authoritative argu...

I would live to study not study to live.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, a...

Most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interes...

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

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. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and acce...

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

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Research as the college student will come to know it is relatively thorough investigation primarily in libraries of a properly limited topic and presentation of the results of this investigation...

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.