Quotes about Scholarship
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.
— Stephen Hawking
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
— Confucius
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
— Albert Camus
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
— Samuel Johnson
The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.
— Albert Einstein
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
— Francois Rabelais
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
— George Washington
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
— William Hazlitt
I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
— Samuel Johnson
All I have learned, I learned from books.
— Abraham Lincoln
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
— William Hazlitt