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Scholars and Scholarship Quotes and Quotations
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad. Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length. A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. What is research, but a blind date with knowledge? If I had read as much as other men, I should have known no more than they. Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. I would live to study, not study to live. Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer. |
