Scholarship Quotes

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

Absolutely pay off your credit card debt, because a child can always get a loan to go to school, possibly a scholarship, a grant.

History never repeats itself, historians do.

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

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship

I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

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.

I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

I'd tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day.

To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual.

I teamed up with the PGA of America to help promote a weekend of golf that raises scholarship money for kids who lost a parent or whose parent was severely wounded in combat.

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

[My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

Character comes before scholarship.

Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.

Scholarship is polite argument.

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

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.

In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.