Study Quotes - page 3

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that? (Mick Jagger)
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. View quote
Richard Owen
Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats. View quote
Paul Bloom
'War,' says Machiavelli, '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. View quote
Edmund Burke
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will. View quote
Tyra Banks
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. View quote
John Ruskin
The proper study of mankind is the science of design. View quote
Herbert Simon
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn't go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?" View quote
Ronald Coase
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. View quote
Michael Korda
Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied. (Edward Said)
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. View quote
Joseph Addison
It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things and acted according to Nature whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable. View quote
William Penn
If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy. View quote
Chrysippus
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. View quote
Maria Mitchell
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it. View quote
Bel Kaufman
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite chinese restaurant -- you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage. View quote
David Lee Roth
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? View quote
Jane Austen
In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study. (Norman Lamm)
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. View quote
Anatole France
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play. View quote
Carl Orff
The proper study of mankind is woman. View quote
Henry Adams
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