Top 54 Quotes About Studious
#1. Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.
George Sandys
#2. As I grew older, my love for reading grew stronger. I read with studious interest everything I could find relating to colored men who had gained prominence. My heroes had been King David, then Robert the Bruce; now Frederick Douglass was enshrined in the place of honor.
James Weldon Johnson
#3. It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.
Roger L'Estrange
#4. Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
Jack Kerouac
#5. After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, 'That's fine. We support you, but you have to go to school,' which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway; I enjoy it.
Josie Loren
#6. Nissa Montaine was not cunning, but she was studious. She'd been known to read the same book over again dozens of times and comb the nuances from it.
Sarah E. Morin
#7. Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
Benjamin Franklin
#8. It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
Giacomo Leopardi
#9. I am still of [the] opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood
sex and the dead.
W.B.Yeats
#10. The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness.
James Joyce
#11. Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
William Penn
#12. Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.
Lord Byron
#13. Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
Michel De Montaigne
#14. To be studious was to be the opposite of boring, she had believed; it was to be so interested, so madly curious, that one simply could not wait for the answers to arrive on their own: one had to go chase them in the only manner available.
Meredith Duran
#15. On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.
Charles-Augustin De Coulomb
#16. I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
Gene Simmons
#17. Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.
F.W. Boreham
#18. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
William Osler
#19. I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
Kevin Spacey
#20. Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread,
Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon
The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead
Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.
Allen Tate
#21. The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to catch some sparks of the genius of masters, and in addition some rays of the glory that is the masters.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
#22. the studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#23. Most people gawked at her because of her exotic appearance or stared with envy at her beauty. However, he always looked at her in a studious way, as if he was trying to piece her together like she was a marble puzzle. A statue he was constructing from parts of her abstract soul.
Sarah Noffke
#24. My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.
Tom Hardy
#25. The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
William Cowper
#26. He wore classic nerd glasses, with frames that were dark at the top and clear at the bottom. In spite of his studious appearance, he was actually fairly good-looking.
Krista Davis
#27. Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Decter
#28. I was very studious and square in college.
Vera Farmiga
#29. He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
Samuel Johnson
#30. Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!
William Gilbert
#32. The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#33. The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.
William Blake
#34. I'd basically described myself: a quiet, studious bookworm who would go to bed at a decent hour. A non-partier who wouldn't bring a parade of boys through our room, or make it the floor headquarters for beer pong.
Tammara Webber
#37. I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.
Nicola Sturgeon
#38. Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.
Siouxsie Sioux
#39. The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.
B.C. Forbes
#40. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.
John Milton
#41. I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.
Eva Green
#43. Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
Alexander Pope
#44. Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
#45. I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.
Iman
#46. As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
William Wilberforce
#47. Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.
Emanuel Lasker
#48. I was very studious.
Kesha
#49. I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
Thomas Jefferson
#50. I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.
Ben Barnes
#51. Don't dump my stash. I hereby bequeath all manner of pleasure machines to you, my pasty, studious little friend.
Tessa Bailey
#52. Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.
Eddie Condon
#53. Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
(Essay on Tea, 1757.)
Samuel Johnson
#54. I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.
Mac DeMarco
