Quotes with scholarship

  • Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
  • The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
  • The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

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  • Billie Jean King A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Camille Paglia American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barack Obama If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Blake Bailey My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Hannah Arendt 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.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Camille Paglia The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bernard Williams Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Boyd Holbrook When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.
    Boyd Holbrook
    American actor and model
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