Quotes about studying




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"Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment."

Addison, Joseph on studying    Share


"I would live to study, and not study to live."

Bacon, Francis on studying    Share

"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature."

Cicero, Marcus T. on studying    Share

"For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities"

Goleman, Daniel on studying    Share

"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on studying    Share

"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on studying    Share

"Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them."

Plato on studying    Share

"Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes."

Proverb, Chinese on studying
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"The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study."

Ramsay, Sir William on studying    Share

"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on studying
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"No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on studying    Share

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