Study Quotes

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

~ Henri Poincaré

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

~ Herbert Simon

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

~ Stormzy

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

~ William Osler

I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.

~ Mary Steenburgen

I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.

~ Robert Winston

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

~ Ada Yonath

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

~ Roscoe Mitchell

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

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

~ Gustav Klimt

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

~ Sebastian Thrun

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

~ Henry Lawson

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

~ Thomas Nashe

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

~ Norman Lamm

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

~ Richard Burton

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

~ Audre Lorde

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

~ W. H. Auden

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

~ Winston Churchill

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

~ Oliver Stone

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

~ A. J. P. Taylor

Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.

~ Bob Peterson

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

~ Avicenna

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

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

~ Theodore Bikel

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

~ Daniel D. Palmer

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

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

~ Michael Gove

One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.

~ Michael Greger

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

~ Samuel Richardson

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

~ William Osler

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well.

~ Sherwin B. Nuland

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

~ Emily Greene Balch

After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.

~ John Vane

Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

~ James Cash Penney