Study Quotes · Page 157

Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you…

— William Eggleston

How can diverse Americans become "one people"? I believe that one path is for us to pursue the study of the past…

— Ronald Takaki

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization.…

— R. C. Sproul

If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it's possible for different…

— Sherwood Schwartz

Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to…

— Karl Popper

Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical…

— Daniel L. Akin

I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor…

— Mark Twain

Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life…

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to…

— Isabella Rossellini

But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which…

— Samuel Johnson

A problem with school is that you often become what you study. If you study, let say cooking, you become a chef.…

— Anonymous

The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they…

— Henry David Thoreau

He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an…

— John Robert Seeley

It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the…

— David D. Burns

The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It…

— Joost Meerloo

For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . .…

— Charles Mackay

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three…

— Mary Roach

“History, he thought, is the study of men and women who rise to extraordinary events. It is, over and over, an examination…

— Anonymous

Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense…

— Paul Goodman

I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four…

— Nina Conti

“Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must…

— Augustus Toplady

There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to…

— Arundhati Roy

I’ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body—and figuring out…

— Christiane Northrup

One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly…

— Robert Jay Lifton

If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care…

— Marty Nemko

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to…

— Anonymous

I know for me as an artist, I think I do myself and my listeners a disservice, if I don't listen to…

— LeCrae

If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and…

— Annie Dillard

I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy…

— Isaac Newton

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and…

— Alice Walker

“Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "Where there is no money, there is no learning." The rabbis explain that unless people's stomachs are…

— H.W. Charles

The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed…

— Edward Gibbon

And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works…

— Robert Boyle

I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics,…

— Conor McGregor