Quotes with study

  • Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
  • No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
  • I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.
  • Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
  • Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
  • Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
  • 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.
  • If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
  • These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
  • The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
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  • Paul E. Little Bible study is like eating peanuts. The more you eat, the more you want to eat.
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Henry David Thoreau For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Andrew Murray A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ezra Pound Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Gerald Early I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball.
    Gerald Early
    American essayist and American (1952 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Aldous Huxley It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Addison Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Confucius Study the past if you would divine the future.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Stephen R. Covey To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Bhagat Singh 'Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...in our society... this has now become a propagandist system in which emphasis is put on the future... the ideology against which the young people of the 1950's and 1960's rebelled. Future preference: plan; study hard; save.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Anne Seward A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Vince Lombardi A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Maynard Keynes A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Denis Diderot All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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