Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge."
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Scholarship
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Jonathon Keats
Artist, Philosopher
"...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing."
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning."
Malcolm Bradbury
Novelist, Academic
"Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship"
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"I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly."
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"I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program."
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"How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes."
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"A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great."
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"Character comes before scholarship."
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"I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship."
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"Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!"
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