Quotes with studies

  • No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
  • The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
  • As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
  • Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
  • So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
  • In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
  • The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.
  • If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
  • Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
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  • Hans Selye Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • David Gemmell A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
    Quest For Lost Heroes (2011) 43
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Bertil Ohlin As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Erik H. Erikson Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.
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  • Angela Davis I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Arnold Schoenberg I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
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  • Barry McCaffrey I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
    The Rise of David Levinsky
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Irving Layton If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Burton Richter In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Camillo di Cavour In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.
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  • Bela Lugosi In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carl D. Anderson Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
    Carl D. Anderson
    American physicist
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  • Allen Klein It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • André Gide Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Plato No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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