Study Quotes

Study the past, if you would divine the future. (Confucius)
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. View quote
William Hazlitt
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. View quote
Lauren Bacall
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. View quote
Eduard Shevardnadze
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. View quote
Hippolyte Taine
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. View quote
Florence Nightingale
Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed. (Joseph Haydn)
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. View quote
Ovid
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. View quote
George F. Kennan
You have to study a great deal to know a little. View quote
Montesquieu
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. View quote
Bruce Lee
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. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. (Edward Hopper)
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. View quote
Gustav Klimt
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. View quote
William Congreve
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