Scholarly Insight Quotes

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to the Blues, Gary brings his vocation as a New Testament teacher together with his passion for the blues and gives the reader scholarly knowledge and wise insight.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

We should speak as the populace, think as the learned.