Scholarship Quotes
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"Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar".
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If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.
francis parkman— Autobiography (1868)
In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.
William A. Henry III— William A. Henry III (1995) In Defense of Elitism
Theyare not clever school boys or scholarship candidates, but 'Fellows of another college'.
john edensor littlewood— 1953 Of the ancient Greeks. A Mathematician's Miscellany.
Alas, this industrialized twelve-tone horse, dull on the outside and empty inside, constantly being perfected and dragged to a new Troy in shadow of an ideological war long since fought and won by responsible minds like Schoenberg, with neither systems nor scholarship for armor!
luciano berio— "The Composer on His Work : Meditation on a Twelve-Tone Horse", in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music : A Continuing Symposium (1996) edited by Richard Kostelanetz and Joseph Darby
Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics")
michel chossudovsky— Chapter 2, Global Falsehoods, p. 27
Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This is a position that is so extreme that to call it marginal would be an understatement; it doesn't even appear on the map of contemporary New Testament scholarship.
william lane craig— "Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?" debate with Richard Carrier, 2009
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth — not a different truth: the same truth — only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.
shelby foote— Shelby Foote, The Civil War, A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville (1958; reprint, New York: Vintage, 1986), 815. ISBN 0-394-74623-6.
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.
Northrop Frye— "Statement for the Day of My Death"
In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.
William A. Henry III— In Defense of Elitism
As happens with sports and hobbies, his enjoyment was solemnized by expertise, the rites of comparing, collating, a half-deliberate parody of scholarship like the recitation of batting averages.
mary mccarthy— "The Writing on the Wall," The Writing on the Wall (1970)
i'm donating proceeds from the show to my college scholarship at art center. i had programs, skate decks, prints, and originals for sale, and you guys too home a lot of everything. your support will help a talented young person get through school--thank you'.
mike shinoda— LP/FM MB 2006
for those who are interested in buying something and continuting to support the scholarship, i will have an online store open this week featuring whatever is still for sale--but remember that quantities are very limited. -m
mike shinoda— LP/FM MB 2006
I do not know what Henry Smith may be at the subjects of which he professes to know something; but I never go to him about a matter of scholarship, in a line where he professes to know nothing without learning more from him than I can get from any one else.
henry john stephen smith— John Conington, as cited by the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews in Scotland ( ).
I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way. We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing. Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.
talal abu-ghazaleh— December 2006, Interview with Jordan Business magazine entitled “The Grass is Greener ... On Both Sides”
The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.
theodor adorno— p. 12 (Wozu noch Philosophie? [Why still philosophy] (1963))
The quality which makes his work great is not his scholarship, nor the faculty of narrative which he shared with many contemporaries, but his astonishing power of co-ordinating the fragments of information which came to him through tradition, the relation of friends, or documentary evidence. In an age when little was attempted beyond the registration of fact, he had reached the conception of history. It is in virtue of this conception that the Historia Ecclesiastica still lives after twelve hundred years.
bede— Sir Frank Stenton Anglo-Saxon England (1971), p. 187
“Often it seems the more ‘ scholarship ’ one has, the less innovative one becomes. One can increasingly rest upon their knowledge of prior art to solve what looks like a new problem.”
stephen bush— Bush, Stephen F., Keynote Speech, First IEEE International Conference on Communications 2012 Workshop on Telecommunications: From Research to Standards July 18, 2012
Terri (Hilary Duff)'s new roommate is Denise (Dana Davis), who plans to work hard for a scholarship, and resents Terri as a distraction. Sizing up Terri's wardrobe and her smile, she tells her: "You're like some kind of retro Brady Buncher." I hate it when a movie contains its own review.
roger ebert— Review of Raise Your Voice (8 October 2004)
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
robert a. heinlein— In: Time Enough for Love: the lives of Lazarus Long; a novel , (1973), p.366
The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
camille paglia— p. xx (Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf)
Architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance. But those who have a thorough knowledge of both, like men armed at all points, have the sooner attained their object and carried authority with them.
vitruvius— Chapter I, Sec. 2
Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics")
— Chapter 2, Global Falsehoods, p. 27 (The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003))
The term, then, is obviously a relative one: my pedantry is your scholarship, his reasonable accuracy, her irreducible minimum of education and someone else’s ignorance.
— H. W. Fowler, Modern English Usage
Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship .
— Malcolm Bradbury Cuts (London: Hutchinson, 1987) p. 42.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgement.
— James Russell Lowell "The First Need of American Culture" (1894); cited from Martin Duberman James Russell Lowell (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966) p. 161.
Alas, this industrialized twelve-tone horse, dull on the outside and empty inside, constantly being perfected and dragged to a new Troy in shadow of an ideological war long since fought and won by responsible minds like Schoenberg, with neither systems nor scholarship for armor!
luciano berio— "The Composer on His Work : Meditation on a Twelve-Tone Horse", in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music : A Continuing Symposium (1996) edited by Richard Kostelanetz and Joseph Darby
