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Study Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.…
- He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as…
- Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
- Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they…
- I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
- For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers…
- I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east…
- He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as…
- It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
- I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live…
- We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward as into the…
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- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. — John James Audubon
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster
- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to… — Spencer Bachus
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. — Francis Bacon
- Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. — Francis Bacon