Quotes about Scholarship

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Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire. — Slavoj Žižek
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secu — Chaim Potok, In the Beginning
...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit ad — Robin R. Meyers, Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
History never repeats itself, historians do. — Lee Benson, The Concept Of Jacksonian Democracy: New York As A Test Case
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. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion. — Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then — Nelson Mandela
They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. — Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administrati — John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'Isn't he just a — David Eddings, King of the Murgos
Politics bores you?" Bronsen said.Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fasc — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
The point of Christian scholarship is not recognition by standards established in the wider culture. The point is to pra — Mark A. Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. — Susan Sontag
To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic. — Amit Kalantri
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. — Dan Rather
Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' pr — Roman Payne
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates — Werner Herzog
As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judge — Ibn Warraq
Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture — Nicholas Wolterstorff, Until Justice and Peace Embrace: The Kuyper Lectures for 1981 Delivered at the Free University of Amsterdam