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Scholarship Quotes

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

'Anatomy of Bibliomania' (1930) vol. 1, p. 150

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins (2007). “Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society”, p.369, NYU Press

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

Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.103

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Life Of Galileo”, p.55, Bloomsbury Publishing

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

"Viggo Mortensen interview: 'If I think a film's beyond me - that's a good sign'". Interview with Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2013.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “Cuts”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

William Knowlton Zinsser (1980). “On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.167

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.258, Harvard University Press

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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

Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

Character comes before scholarship.

Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”