Scholarship Quotes
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
— Susan Sontag
Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.
— Robert Anton Wilson
I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.
— Summer Glau
I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
— Benjamin Carson
Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
— Rita Mae Brown
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
— William Hazlitt
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
— Ronald Biggs
I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.
— Isaiah Mustafa
I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
— Edwin Moses
My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.
— Brian Blessed
I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
— David Remnick
Driver's licenses & scholarships for illegals; not amnesty.
— Bill Richardson
This is insanity!""No, this is scholarship! — Brandon Sanderson
Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship
— Malcolm Bradbury
If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.
— Michael Corbat
I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.
— Scott Brooks
Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet.
— David Bergland
Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.
— Richard Armour
When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
— Billy Sunday
I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.
— Ellen Wilkinson
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
— William Butler Yeats
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
— Emeril Lagasse
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
History is scholarship. It is also art, and it is literature.
— Stephen J. Pyne
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
— Robert A. Heinlein
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
— Isabella Rossellini
The scholarship on music and poetry in Mexico - and Latin America more generally - has yet to receive substantial historical attention.
— Stephen Neufeld
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
— Billie Jean King
All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
— James Russell Lowell
In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...
— Joseph Telushkin
In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.
— Israel Shenker
Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things.
— John Piper
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
— Deborah Harkness
I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.
— Jason Chaffetz
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
— Henry David Thoreau
The whole of our scholarship - the whole of our thought - we question everything except the centrality of sexuality.
— A.S. Byatt
Scholarship is polite argument.
— Philip Rieff
Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
— Edmund Morgan
I think if there was a boarding school for personality makeovers, you'd probably get a scholarship.
— Lauren Layne
This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.
— Terry Teachout
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
— Dan Rather
Scholarship without virtue is like pearls pearls
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
— Chuck Feeney
I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Ignorance may reside in a man hiding from intelligence, but scholarship can seem ignorance hidden behind intelligence.
— Brandon Sanderson
There is no purpose for Christian scholarship outside the purpose of God that He is accomplishing in the church.
— James R. White
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
— Richard Feynman
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
— Anthony Anderson
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
I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship
— Aselin Debison
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
— Malala Yousafzai
It was quite a shock for me to discover that crime was so easy that it was boring. I reluctantly turned to scholarship.
— Barry Hughart
Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.
— Richard Levins
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
— Holbrook Jackson
Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.
— Mason Cooley
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
— Nnamdi Azikiwe
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off.
— Rory Kinnear
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
— Jacques Barzun
Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.
— Henry David Thoreau
Character comes before scholarship.
— Margaret Ayer Barnes
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
— Slavoj Zizek
When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.
— Harold Pinter
I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
— Edward Norton
town to help raise money for a scholarship
— Nancy Martin
