Quotes about studying

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.

— Joseph Addison

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

— Francis Bacon

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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— Daniel Goleman

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

— Chinese Proverb

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

— Sir William Ramsay

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.

— Woodrow T. Wilson