Scholarly Quotes

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sexuality, Sexist, Inclination

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Judith Norman (2002). “Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

  Daniel Nathans

  School, Choices, Lucky

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• One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Power, Self, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 85, 1799.

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• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  Barbara Smith

  Unique, Black, Important

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• Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

  Moliere

  Communication, Literature, Praying

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.134, Penguin

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• I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

  Antony Beevor

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

  Al-Ghazali

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Islamic

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• There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

  Howard Gardner

  Discipline, Method

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit to folks who show up on Sunday. I think that's just wrong, but scholars rarely make any effort to decipher their own scholarly work for people outside the ivory tower.

  Michael S. Heiser

  Biblical, Sunday, Thinking

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Talking, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My method is the magpie's: I look for shiny things. That is, I look for concrete material details of daily life, and I look for vigorous prose, which is the only kind I can read for very long. That effectively bars a great deal of scholarly work, but I didn't feel its loss.

  Luc Sante

  Loss, Long, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My "degree" has done nothing for me at all. But that I've learned - the critical thought processes I've tried to keep sharp - these things were furthered along by college. I hated so much of my life "at university," but I also loved so much of it, and the things that I loved about it have kept me in a sort of "scholarly pursuit" to this day. Maybe it messed me up because I believe that there are things like truth and beauty, and that art and discussion can help us find them and enhance our lives.

  Ted Leo

  Art, Believe, College

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Immortality, Conscious, Subjects

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• The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

  Dick Cavett

  Brain, Study, Mystery

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.52, Macmillan

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• In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

  Miroslav Volf

  People, Infidelity, Different

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• As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

  Robert Kuttner

  Envy, Discipline, Physics

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• Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'

  Abu Dawood

  Wisdom, Islamic, Issues

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• You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Girl, Children, Pride

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• But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

  Barbara Mertz

  Dust, Instinct, Clutter

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• The words burned on her tongue, but Minerva couldn’t give them voice. What a hopeless coward she was. She could pound on his door at midnight and demand to be respected as an individual. She could travel across the country in hopes of being appreciated for her scholarly achievements. But she still lacked the courage to ask for the one thing she wanted most. To be loved, just for herself.

  Tessa Dare

  Country, Doors, Voice

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• And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Work, Writing, Order

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• How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophy, Taken, Science

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• Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

  Donald Worster

  Strong, Commitment, Simple

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• In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines. The convergence in the results of these independent studies—which was neither planned nor sought—constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory.

  Pope John Paul I

  Independent, Discovery, Discipline

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• Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to the Blues, Gary brings his vocation as a New Testament teacher together with his passion for the blues and gives the reader scholarly knowledge and wise insight.

  Steve Stockman

  Wise, Teacher, Book

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