A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

We were doing the interviews on the second day of taping. And the director pulled me to the side and said they had scholarships for all four kids. Two years at Wharton County Junior College...

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

They will be doing interviews if they go directly into the job market and for summer jobs. And for those going to college, they might have to interview to get into a specific major or...

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

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...

The scholarships don’t necessarily have to be used at a university. If someone wanted to go to a technical school, or even something like hairdressing school, they could use it for that, too.

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down...

I thought there was no way they’ve got that many scholarships available. I didn’t think their senior class was that big.

I’m a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority… don’t seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up,...

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less,...

I don’t regret not competing as a freshman be-cause (focusing on club) is what got me my scholarship and my future is way more important.