Quotes about Scholarship

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

You know I went to the Hunt Schools, a boarding school in Princeton, and I've heard so many Rhodes scholars have gone to the Ivys.

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

To footnote properly takes time.

I went out to California; I was pursuing my degree in genetic engineering and civil law at U.C. Berkeley, and I had to pay my way through school. I eventually got a scholarship, which was great, but in the beginning, it was very hard.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Nothing has so much exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves.

It is too well known, that the second George never was an Augustus to learning or genius.