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A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri
If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men… — Annie Dillard
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery. — Eric Foner
The proper study of Mankind is Everything. — Margaret Atwood
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts… — Thomas Mann
We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too… — Henri Matisse
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. — Leonardo da Vinci
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life… — Philip Pullman
The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to… — Flannery O'Connor
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place… — Carl Sagan
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human… — Iris Murdoch
My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That… — Sherman Alexie
When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on… — Alberto Manguel
Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed,… — Adam Smith
I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of… — M.F.K. Fisher
But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of… — Meg Cabot
...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice… — Peter Kropotkin
It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work. — Paulo Coelho

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