Study Quotes
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In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be…
— John Stuart Mill
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those…
— John Stuart Mill
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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as…
— Thomas Paine
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UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What…
— G I Gurdjieff
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King Duncan looked up and swept his gaze slowly around the room. Cassandra, he saw, was defiant as ever. Arald's face was set and determined.…
— John Flanagan
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Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up…
— John Green
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He waited while Gilan and Will moved the cloaks experimentally, eyeing each other and studying the unusual colors, seeing how they would blend into the…
— John Flanagan
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Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
— H.G. Wells
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The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.
— Che Guevara
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It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me-…
— Zoë Heller
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Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand…
— Christopher Hitchens
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In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the…
— Stephen King
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No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going…
— Nick Harkaway
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Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with a…
— Norman Doidge
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The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies…
— Catherine Fisher
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