Scholarly Quotes - Page 2

• What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.67, David M Gross

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• My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Should Have, People, Goal

  "Thomas Campbell: master of the Met". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2010.

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• I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Book, Reading

  Source: zenhabits.net

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• I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

  John Currin

  Depressing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Art, Museums, Online

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• Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

  Alan Sokal

  Self, Achievement, Political

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• As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Kids, Home

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• In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Order, Perspective

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• I co-edited an anthology called Interfictions with Delia Sherman and wrote a short scholarly book on three women poets called Voices from Fairyland: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Sylvia Townsend Warner. So I've been busy, but I haven't had time to write a novel.

  Theodora Goss

  Book, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The desire to have meaning and messages in a neutral way, independent of religious commitments, corrupts scholarly work on the Bible, because it suppresses the reality of the presence of God as the key to biblical understanding.

  Vern Poythress

  Religious, Independent, Commitment

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly, so too I have to admit that I don't want to do editing for the sake of it, and some possible projects would be of uncertain value to me.

  Oliver Harris

  Editing, Balance, Would Be

  Source: bigother.com

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• I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and then puts on a public intellectual hat and writes a different way for a different kind of readership. I generally write the way I write, no matter what and it seems to have worked for me.

  Louis Menand

  Writing, People, Intellectual

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.

  Christian Wiman

  Thinking, Smell, Tests

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.

  Michael Sandel

  Teaching, Jewish Tradition, Childhood

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an institute of contemporary history that turns out first-rate scholarly work. Their textbooks are accurate. Whether the students actually read them is another matter.

  Robert O. Paxton

  War, People, Parent

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Thinking, Numbers, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is astonishing to me. I'm really good at the particulars but I have to do an immense amount of critical thinking to make something larger of it.

  Lucy Corin

  Thinking, Reason, Type

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.

  Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

  Physicians, Realization, Academic

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• Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

  Max Stirner

  Men, Judging, Culture

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mean, Boredom, Leaving

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.

  Milton Friedman

  Thoughtful, Issues, Done

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• For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

  George Eliot

  Sorry, Passion, Self

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 3, ch. 29

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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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• 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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• As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.

  Ibn Warraq

  Suicide, Assessment, White

  "Virgins? What virgins?" by Ibn Warraq, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

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