study quotes

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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.

Bertrand Russell

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

Billy Graham

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.

Noam Chomsky

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

Bill Gates

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

Baruch Spinoza

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.

Paul Auster

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

Jackie Chan

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Jeff Bezos

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.

Fidel Castro

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.

Kevin Gates

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

Robert Kiyosaki

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.

Haruki Murakami

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Isaac Newton

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.

Henry Kissinger

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.

Noam Chomsky

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

John Muir

Study men, not historians.

Harry S. Truman

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.

Robert Greene

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

Che Guevara

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Francis Bacon

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.

Francis Bacon

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.

Steve Jobs

Research is creating new knowledge.

Neil Armstrong

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Alexander Pope

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

Galileo Galilei

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

William James

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.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Francis Bacon

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

Hermann Hesse

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Confucius

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

Francis Bacon

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

Alan Watts

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Amy Winehouse

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.

Alexander Graham Bell