62 Quotes About Scholarship

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

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.

The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

History never repeats itself, historians do.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from collapsing. (p. 21)

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

Ninety percent of those who are successful today were the people who had little or nothing, but were pushed and encouraged by their family.