Famous quotes containing the words scholarship, honor and/or society:
“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn’t know what the thing was. It’s the honor what I loved.”
—Elizabeth Cotten (1892–1987)
“The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new—whether it be the settlement of new lands or the initiation of new ways of life—is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
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