Quotes
Quotes about Study
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,
Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
The idea of her life shall sweetly creep
Into his study of imagination,
And every lovely organ of her life,
Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit,
More moving-delicate and full of life
Into the eye and prospect of his soul.
Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath,
Study to break it and not break my troth.
I am slow of study.
Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.
What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th' unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.
By labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die.
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Note 9.La vray science et le vray étude de l'homme c'est l'homme (The true science and the true study of man is man).--Charron: De la Sagesse, lib. i. chap. 1.
Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.--Plato: Phædrus.
"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.
No solemn sanctimonious face I pull,
Nor think I'm pious when I'm only bilious;
Nor study in my sanctum supercilious,
To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a Bull.
Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?"
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Study to be quiet.
The study of language may beget madness
Novels pour from the presses, piling up on the reviewer's table, tumbling on to the study floor and scaring the cat. All show competence, some talent, some few very exciting talent
The linguistic specialist ... is scared of the semantic element in his subject. Phonemes and morphemes cause him no difficulty, but once you start studying meaning you're into culture
To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.
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.
The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
