Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.
It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.
The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.
It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
