Motivational Quotes

Scholars and scholarship

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.

- Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Scholars and scholarship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Scholars and scholarship

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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.

Confucius

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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Baudrillard, Jean

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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

Chapman, George

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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Hegel, Georg

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

Arendt, Hannah

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Pound, Ezra

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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Hazlitt, William

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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

Johnson, Samuel

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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

Synge, J. M.

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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Cohen, Leonard

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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Halsey, Margaret