Scholarship Quotes
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“Universities”
“ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”
“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
“For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,
It is in cloistre or in scole.”
“And let a Scholler, all earths volumes carrie,
He will be but a walking dictionarie.”
“Exquisita lectio singulorum, doctissimum; cauta electio meliorum, optimum facit.”
“Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bones of great men.”
“There mark what Ills the Scholar's Life assail,
Toil, Envy, Want, the Garret, and the Jail.”
“Scilicet ut vellem curvo dinoscere rectum
atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum.”
“True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgement.”
“Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.”
“You would think him a very foolish Fellow, that should not value a Vertuous, or a Wise Man, infinitely before a great Scholar.”
“[A] society that consisted of nothing but scholars would soon starve to death, and it wouldn’t be very interesting while it lasted.”
“One should observe our scholars closely: they have reached the point where they think only “reactively,” i.e. they must read before they can think.”
“Just as two knives are both sharpened by being rubbed one against the other, so scholars improve and increase in knowledge when in touch with one another.”
“The ink of scholars (used in writing) is weighed on the Day of Judgement with the blood of martyrs and the ink of scholars outweighs the blood of martyrs.”
“Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one’s peers.”
“Some on commission, some for the love of learning,
Some because they have nothing better to do
Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden
The drumming of the demon in their ears.”