Quotes about Scholarship
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
- Francois Rabelais
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
- George Washington
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
- William Hazlitt
I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
- Samuel Johnson
All I have learned, I learned from books.
- Abraham Lincoln
Medieval learning was really advanced.
- Terry Jones
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- William Hazlitt
The duty of the historian is not to make the facts, but to discover them, and then to construct his theory wide enough to give them all comfortable room.
- Philip Schaff
Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.
- Bernice King
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is astonishing that critical scholarship has asked forever about the identification of these store-house cities, but without ever asking about the skewed exploitative social relationships between owner and laborers that the project exhibits
- Walter Brueggemann