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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. — Richard Feynman
Reflective learning provokes critical thinking, enabling us to pose relevant questions, revealing the profound oceans of — Martin Guevara Urbina, Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realitites and New Directions for the Twenty-first Century
Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we h — Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Wherefore they understood the Holy Scripture rather literally than with understanding, and taste only the letter of it, — Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena
...it takes great humility to find oneself unjustly condemned and be silent, and to do this is to imitate the Lord Who s — Teresa of Ávila
Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral. — Richard Levins
Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussl — Idries Shah, Reflections
Everything is like a wall. Said a scholar to the troll. Bang your head to go on through. Then you'll see, there is no qu — Will Advise, Nothing is here...
It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the sc — Adam Gopnik
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the — Richard Courant, What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books wit — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
After applying to hundreds of scholarships I finally felt that we are also beggars, no different than others, we are not — M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their spec — Robert Graves, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Amended and Enlarged Edition
According to the gospels, Christ healed diseases, cast out devils, rebuked the sea, cured the blind, fed multitudes with — Robert G. Ingersoll
Who are you?" the woman said at last."Lyra Silver—""No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know things like — Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary... — Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Wisdom
I did apply for more than 200 scholarships and finally I got one, but you are telling me now “God gave it to me!” Don’t — M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider — Charles E. Glassick, Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate
I did say that to deny the existence of evil spirits, or to deny the existence of the devil, is to deny the truth of the — Robert G. Ingersoll