Study Quotes

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He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you canâ€™t… — Frank McCourt
...she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything — AndreÃ¯ Makine
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and… — Raymond Chandler
Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more… — Stephen Fry
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have… — Thomas Sowell
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare oneâ€™s self to die. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand. — Confucius
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out… — David Foster Wallace
Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is most fly, and you have… — Christopher Moore
For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study… — J D Salinger
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an… — Sherman Alexie
When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains… — Louis L'Amour
Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if… — P D Ouspensky
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and weâ€™re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines,… — Richard Bach
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,… — Rebecca Solnit
We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an… — William Faulkner
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy,… — John Adams

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