Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what’s called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Middle English is an exciting field – almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces – as far as language goes, at any rate.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Research is creating new knowledge.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Study men, not historians.