scholarship

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

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.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

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 accessible to students.

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

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

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.

Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.

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

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.

I would live to study not study to live.

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.