The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy?… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The study of great quotations is worth more than a college education. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
John Kerry has apologized for saying those who do not study hard and do their homework will get stuck in Iraq. Now,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your… — Chris Sarandon Copy Share Image
How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot. — Xenocrates Copy Share Image
Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study,… — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston,… — Connie Francis Copy Share Image
There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young… — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more… — John Cage Copy Share Image
All you have to do is send a message or somehow establish communication between the mind and body of the sick person.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive… — Simon Soloveychik Copy Share Image
The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until. — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
