Scholarly Analysis Quotes

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.

In 'The Heritage Guide to the Constitution,' you find a most remarkable collection of scholarly work. Over a hundred people have contributed to explaining what the Constitution says, what it means, how it has been interpreted over the years, and how it is important to people today.

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.

Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.

The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.