Quotes about Scholarship

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today. False teachers use high-sounding words that seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty . . .adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies.

He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

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 work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

The intelligentsia are those who have been educated beyond their intelligence.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

The only realistic offer came from Nebraska University who offered me a scholarship to be a physical education director. What will a 24-year-old do with that? Retire and study?

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.