Best 15 quotes in «scholarly quotes» category

I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.

You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested…

But you can't fault me on my footnotes. I've worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the sources I quote actually exist. I must confess, however, that the idea of putting footnotes in chapter 5, the autobiographical chapter, started out simply as a joke. Who but a biblical scholar would think of footnoting an autobiography? But the joke quickly got out of hand and become a significant part of that chapter. I plan someday to write a scholarly article consisting of a single sentence and a twenty-page footnote.

I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.

It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups are welcome to the act of learning.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.

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 language of starlings reminded her of nothing so much as the language of scholarly papers, the smooth and chilly syntax devoid of contour, the maddening reliance on 'the royal we' as the subject. Yet this was not the royal we, not in the sense that a pompous colleague or one of her lazy graduate students might use it: at least twenty birds had together formed the multilayered sound that came to her as English words.

The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one's mind is a natural impulse when one wishes others to know these facts, just as to cuddle and pat a sick child is a natural impulse. But telling a fact to a child may not cure his ignorance of it any more than patting him will cure his scarlet fever. (p. 61)

The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it is beneath them.

To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.

To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.

Scholarly talks and discussion require manner, virtue, and referral. Otherwise, the outcome holds nothing.