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scholarship
«This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it must be for the purpose of developing her intelligence, or raising her heart to serious things, not of widening her field of ambitions, dethroning man»
Author: Christine de Pisan
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ambitions, dethrone, dethroned, dethroning, developing, intends, raising, scholarship, to be sure
«True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
judgment, scholarship
«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.»
«The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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centrality, conceptual, electrified, electrify, electrifying, hugely, Literary Art, literary criticism, modern history, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, scholarship, self love, sign language, sophistication, sorely, undervalue, undervalued, undervalues, undervaluing, visual, visual image
«The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
ceaseless, erudition, Famous Or, irrelevancies, irrelevancy, pseudo, scholarship, sheer
«The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
fuzzy, reasoning, scholarship, subjects
«The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
ink, inscribe, oblivion, once-over, scholarship, telephone, telephone wire, wire
«When a woman turns to scholarship there is usually something wrong with her sexual opportunities»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
opportunities, scholarship, sexual, turns, usually