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Study Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines…
- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor…
- There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
- He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.…
- Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
- For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we…
- The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench…
- I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of…
- Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by…
- Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study…
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- History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage
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- Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. — Francis Bacon