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Study Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
- The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination…
- I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
- .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted…
- The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
- In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of…
- Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and…
- Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
- In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life;…
- If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so,…
- A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
- I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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- Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. — Francis Bacon