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We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

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Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ↗

— Nnamdi Azikiwe

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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. ↗

— George Chapman

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I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. ↗

— Duffy Daugherty

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When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. ↗

— Denis Johnson

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise. ↗

— Idries Shah

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