Quotes about Scholarship
The duty of the historian is not to make the facts, but to discover them, and then to construct his theory wide enough to give them all comfortable room.
— Philip Schaff
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is astonishing that critical scholarship has asked forever about the identification of these store-house cities, but without ever asking about the skewed exploitative social relationships between owner and laborers that the project exhibits
— Walter Brueggemann
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.
— Dorothy Sayers
In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.
— Richard Baxter
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.
— CS Lewis
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
— John Milton
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
— St. Thomas Aquinas