Study Quotes
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So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would, It doth forget to do the thing it should; And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth. (Quote by - Odysseus Elytis)
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. (Quote by - Marty Allen)
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. (Quote by - Sean O'Casey)
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. (Quote by - Dennis Miller)
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. (Quote by - Sir Archibald Wavell)
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
A lot of people see it as negative the greater range of courses and subjects you can study now, but with more and more career options I think this is a good and healthy thing. (Quote by - Peter Fraser)
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. (Quote by - John Milton)
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. (Quote by - Cicero)
The proper study of mankind is books. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study (Quote by - John Phillips Marquand)
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. (Quote by - Cicero)
I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning (Quote by - Mario Lopez)
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture. (Quote by - Gunnar Myrdal)
And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind. (Quote by - Alexander Barclay)
When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
Studious of elegance and ease. (Quote by - John Gay)
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike. (Quote by - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. (Quote by - Aleister Crowley)
Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease. (Quote by - Virgil or Vergil)
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
London Transport commissioned a study to find out why buses were running late and it turned out it was because they kept stopping to let people on. (Quote by - Rory McGrath)
One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. (Quote by - Maria Mitchell)
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees. (Quote by - Christopher Anstey)
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivety. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. (Quote by - Henri Matisse)
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. (Quote by - Talmud)
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study. (Quote by - William Ramsay)
His study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. (Quote by - Saint Isidore of Seville)
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious task, young man, and possibly a tragic one. (Quote by - Herman Hesse)
The proper study of mankind is woman. (Quote by - Henry Adams)
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows. (Quote by - Ovid)
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. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. (Quote by - Epictetus)
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little, and we did. (Quote by - Daryl Gates)
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. (Quote by - Roman Jakobson)
Me therefore studious of laborious ease. (Quote by - William Cowper)
I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Exhausting thought, And having wisdom with each studious year. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. (Quote by - Elle MacPherson)
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. (Quote by - William Osier)
After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. (Quote by - Trevor Dunn)
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight. (Quote by - Elias Canetti)
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. (Quote by - A J P Taylor)
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling. (Quote by - Edward Hall)
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things... (Quote by - Richard Feynman)
I would live to study, not study to live. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves. (Quote by - Albert Goldman)
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done. (Quote by - Lily Cole)
Realists do not fear the results of their study. (Quote by - Fedor Dostoevsky)
I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. (Quote by - Ambrose Philips)
Here I can work and make money. In Brazil all I would do is study. (Quote by - Raica Oliveira)
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. (Quote by - John Adams)
The true science and study of man is man. (Quote by - Pierre Charron)
To teach how to live with uncertainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
