Studious Quotes
39 quotes by 35 authors
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
— Midge Decter
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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
— Samuel Johnson
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The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness.
— James Joyce
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I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class -…
— Eva Green
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The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will…
— Samuel Johnson
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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man…
— Midge Decter
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Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still…
— Eddie Condon
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will…
— B. C. Forbes
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Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more…
— Howard S. Becker
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Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
— Samuel Johnson
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On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself…
— Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
— Alexander Pope
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My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought…
— Tom Hardy
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You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious…
— Saint Basil
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I was very studious and square in college.
— Vera Farmiga
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But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And…
— John Milton
Who Wrote These Studious Quotes
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