Argument Quote by Isaac Watts

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose,

— C. Wright Mills

But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the…

— William Johnson Cory

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

— Jerzy Kosinski

In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The constant steaming in of thoughts of others must suppress and confine our own and indeed in the long run paralyze the power of…

— Will Durant

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

— Sri Chinmoy

Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

— Thomas a Kempis

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems.…

— Ibn Khaldun

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

— Ajahn Sumedho

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

— Karen Armstrong

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning