The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a little hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose.

Scholarship is polite argument.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. Do you think a Greek name gives more weight to your reasons?

A scholar knows no boredom.

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.