Top 100 Study Of Quotes
#1. The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
John Stuart Mill
#2. The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them.
Richard E. Blackwelder
#3. Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.
Francis Collins
#4. The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Charles Baudelaire
#5. The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
H.G.Wells
#6. The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.
Floyd E. Bloom
#7. Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
Matthew Arnold
#8. I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.
Robert S. Mulliken
#9. Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
Ambrose Bierce
#10. I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
Natasha Trethewey
#11. Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content to seek them by the humbler means of commerce and industry.
Edward Gibbon
#12. Both,' Garp wrote, 'were of the opinion that the practice of law was vulgar, but the study of it was sublime.' They
John Irving
#13. Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.
Albert Einstein
#14. The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.
Swami Vivekananda
#15. On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
Edward Thorndike
#16. I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly because I wanted to understand them. The study of quantum physics helped me to have a deeper understanding of the Secret, on an energetic level,
Rhonda Byrne
#17. The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology
the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.
Edward Abbey
#18. Human relations is the study of mankind, with the purpose of revealing and removing the basic causes of conflicts among men.
Validivar
#19. I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.
Sigmund Freud
#21. If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not have given them so many invitations to study and contemplate Nature.
Robert Boyle
#22. True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
Simone Weil
#23. Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.
George Amos Dorsey
#24. Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#25. Truth is not obtained cheaply. It demands much time given to prayer and study of the Scriptures, followed by practical application in our daily lives. It must take priority over the many forms of cheap entertainment offered by our secular culture. It is a lifetime commitment.
Derek Prince
#26. Real talent harnesses what it has and unlocks what it doesn't. There is natural ability, there is the discipline that develops natural ability, there is the unending study of one's craft, and there is the exponential lifting of performance by the selfless combination of efforts.
Ken Goldstein
#27. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles ... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits.
Albert Einstein
#29. But after a sojourn in the Adirondacks restored his health, he became persuaded of the curative powers of the mountain air and devoted himself to the study of respiratory problems. He
Jennet Conant
#30. The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
Aberjhani
#31. How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !
Arthur Schopenhauer
#32. Whenever an art form - music, book, drama, song - is dragged into the seminar rooms, it is finished as a force. Nothing is more deadly than the anatomizing of scholarship, since the study of art, any art - even the obscene, semiliterate yawp and grunt of rap - drains the life from it.
Paul Theroux
#33. The scientific study of the relationship between brain and mind began in 1861, when Broca, in France, found that specific difficulties in the expressive use of speech, aphasia, consistently followed damage to a particular portion of the left hemisphere of the brain.
Oliver Sacks
#34. Art being a thing of the mind, it follows that any scientific study of art will be psychology. It may be other things as well, but psychology it will always be.
Max J. Friedlander
#35. The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know,
Michel Houellebecq
#36. Great American thinker and philosopher Earl Nightingale said, "If you spend one extra hour each day in the study of your chosen field, you'll be a national expert in five years or less." What do you want to be an expert in?
Abby Beale
#37. The study of Marxism outside of revolutionary struggle can form library rats, but not revolutionaries. Participation in the revolutionary struggle without the study of Marxism will inevitably be filled with hazards, be less confident, and turn out to be half-blind.
Joshua Rubenstein
#38. Typology is the study of how OT historical persons, events, institutions, and settings function to foreshadow, anticipate, prefigure, and predict the greater realities in the new covenant age. The
Stephen J. Wellum
#39. Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.
Ian Hacking
#40. One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.
Richard Rohr
#41. Commissioning a study of a thousand pages may jeopardize a certain project efficiently.
Eraldo Banovac
#42. It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#43. The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that this practice and this tool helps other people be centered, be present, and helps them really [be] embodied and [have] a life.
Rodney Yee
#44. Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral?
Raymond Geuss
#45. Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
Henry Sweet
#46. Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are more human than most human beings. When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together. I envy mundanes their resilience sometimes.
Cassandra Clare
#48. We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought ... We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes such demands and also holds out the promise of realizing them, that the study of science is so supremely worth while.
J. W. N. Sullivan
#49. I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.
James C. Scott
#50. Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury.
Tina Fey
#51. Humans everywhere share the same goals when the context is large enough. And the study of the Cosmos provides the largest possible context.
Carl Sagan
#52. For though the law of nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures; yet men, being biased by their interest, as well as ignorant for want of study of it, are not apt to allow of it as a law binding to them in the application of it to their particular cases.
John Locke
#53. If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
Confucius
#54. Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#56. Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
Marilyn Hacker
#57. The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
Ben Aaronovitch
#59. The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired.
Joseph Epstein
#60. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.
Harold Bloom
#61. In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.
Benjamin Disraeli
#62. In quantum physics, the study of material at the subatomic level, you get down to the tiniest levels. When they take these subatomic particles, put them in particle accelerators and collide them, quantum physicists discover there's nothing there. There's no one home - no ghost in the machine.
Wayne Dyer
#63. Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?
Robert Anton Wilson
#64. I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
Burton Rascoe
#65. Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
Lauren Bacall
#66. This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
Desiderius Erasmus
#67. I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
Venerable Bede
#68. Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.
Criss Jami
#69. The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.
Charles A. Beard
#70. It is not surprising, of course, that those who attempt to discredit the evidence of Scripture are the people who themselves do not seriously read, know, or make a thorough study of the Scriptures.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#71. Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.
Roy Peter Clark
#72. Success is a refined study of the obvious
Jim Rohn
#73. Armed with a hammer and sickle, singer and folklorist A. L. Lloyd hit the nail on the head and cut to the quick on page one of his monumental study of folk song: 'The mother of folklore is poverty.'3
Rob Young
#74. There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.
Ernest Bevin
#75. It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.
Ellen G. White
#76. Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.
Roman Romanenko
#77. The study of personal branding brings one to realize everything is personal and everyone is branded.
Ryan Lilly
#78. All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
Rebecca West
#79. The study of magic is not a science, it is not an art, and it is not a religion. Magic is a craft. When we do magic, we do not wish and we do not pray. We rely upon our will and our knowledge and our skill to make a specific change to the world.
Lev Grossman
#80. We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
Aristotle.
#81. The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.
Jean Bodin
#82. To paraphrase Walter Laqueur, a pioneer in the study of the Allies' response to the Holocaust, although many people thought that the Jews were no longer alive, they did not necessarily believe they were dead.18
Samantha Power
#83. Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.
Geeta Iyengar
#85. I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.
Wendell Pierce
#86. Society and government may be quite distinct concepts but the study of history makes it very difficult to determine that there ever was a society without a government, let alone vice versa.
Christopher Hitchens
#87. Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#88. Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.
R.A. Torrey
#89. You can study the rules until your eyes fall out of your head, but if you cannot recall which rule fits your particular situation just before some large ship hits you broadside, then a study of the rules has failed you at the worst possible time.
John W. Trimmer
#90. I just watch a lot of different films and different TV shows. Really for me, it's just looking at how people react to different shows in different genres. For me, it's more a study of people than a study of acting.
Sterling Beaumon
#91. Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.
Francis Galton
#92. [There will be movement toward] behavioral economics ... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#93. The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
D.H. Lawrence
#94. I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods ... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.
Hans Rosling
#95. My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.
Karen Armstrong
#96. What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
Dogen
#97. Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey taxi." Two is "What train do I take to get to Bloomingdales?" And three is "Don't worry, it's only a flesh wound.
David Letterman
#98. The study of Nature brings into a harmonious whole the questions of the Infinite, the Historic, and the Microscopic as part of the Great Creator's work.
Robert Baden-Powell
#99. The fact that God is infinite makes the study of His Word a lifetime occupation.
Billy Graham
#100. That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.
Thomas Paine
