Scholarly Achievement Quotes

I have a passion for academic life, a passion for students and for the ability and the narrative of a university to make a difference in the world in which they reside.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition.

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

Academic success depends on research and publications.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

In the district of Hizan, through the influence of Shaikh Abdurrahman Tagi, known as Seyda, so many students, teachers, and scholars emerged, I was sure all Kurdistan took pride in them and their scholarly debates and wide knowledge and Sufi way. These were the people who would conquer the face of the earth!

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

I am proud to support the incredible economics department at the University of Chicago.