Quotes about Scholarship
To exaggerate a bit: academic theology today is composed of specialists in an unrespected discipline who write for fellow specialists about topics that interest hardly anyone else.
- Miroslav Volf
As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
- Mortimer Adler
1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?
- Mortimer Adler
The year after How to Read a Book was published, a parody of it appeared under the title How to Read Two Books; and Professor I. A. Richards wrote a serious treatise entitled How to Read a Page.
- Mortimer Adler
It pays to know how to purchase knowledge.
- Napoleon Hill
general or specialized knowledge. An educated man
- Napoleon Hill
The scholarship that looks into the mind, imagination, and behavior of slaves is valuable. But equally valuable is a serious intellectual effort to see what racial ideology does to the mind, imagination, and behavior of maters.
- Toni Morrison
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]
- Euripides
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
- William Hazlitt
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
- JM Coetzee
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If the universities—the supposed citadels of reason, knowledge, scholarship, civilization—can be made to surrender to the rule of brute force, the rest of the country is cooked.
- Ayn Rand