Study Quotes

• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.

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• Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

  Albert Einstein

  Opportunity, Opportunities To Learn, Duty

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

  W. Clement Stone

  Success, Thinking, Mind

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• The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Funny Exam

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824). “Posthumous Poems”, p.367

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• To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Nature, Men

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• Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Teaching

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• It always seems impossible until its done.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

  Samuel Smiles

  Time, Business, Medicine

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.389, The Floating Press

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• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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• Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.

  Confucius

  Men, Clothes, Funny Exam

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• Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, History, Secret

  "Churchill By Himself".

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• I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• 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.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”

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• 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.

  Anatole France

  Love, Relationship, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Study the past, if you would divine the future.

  Confucius

  Change, Time, Philosophical

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• Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.

  Henri Poincare

  Relation, Mathematician, Objects

  "The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare".

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• Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

  Brian Tracy

  Men, Greatness, Discipline

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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• If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Wise, Men

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 1.

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• One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

  Aldo Rossi

  Life, Cities, Architecture

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• The proper study of Mankind is Everything.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mankind

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.212, Anchor

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• The proper study of mankind is woman.

  Henry Adams

  Nature, Humanity, Mankind

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

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• As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Learning, Fire, Brain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Kavanagh, and Other Pieces”, p.362

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