Quotes About Scholarship And Learning

#1. Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything as imperfect and fallible as an actual human being?

Ellen Kushner

#3. BREATHE by Annabelle Wolf: "'Sometimes, it looks like you're so worried you forget to breathe,' Troy said calmly. I was about to tell him everything when a sharp knock sounded on the door. We both jumped.

Annabelle Wolf

#4. If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.

Greg Behrendt

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

William Hazlitt

#6. Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Ralph Nader

#8. Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Richard Feynman

#9. Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

George Santayana

#10. Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

John Lanchester

#11. However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.

Sathya Sai Baba

#12. Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Pietro Aretino

#13. Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.

John Green

#14. I like being outside and seeing a lot of new things.

Max Charles

#15. A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a choice that you can embody in electrical circuits, and it is thanks to that that we have all this ubiquitous computing.

James Gleick

#16. A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

David W. Oxtoby

#17. We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

John Hope Franklin

#18. Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in 3 1/2 years, but it does mean you're smart enough to know that having a college degree would be a good thing.

John Feinstein

#19. Seek the best in everyone that you meet. Seek the worst when dealing with yourself.

Sasha Azevedo