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A person by study must try to disengage the subject from useless matter, and to seize on points capable of improvement ... When subjects are viewed through the mists of prejudice, useful truths may escape. Joseph MacSweeny
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. John Milton, The Reason of Church Government, 1642
What is the end of study, let me know? William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost I i 55, Biron
Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks. ibid. I i 84
And rapt in secret studies … To closeness and the bettering of my mind. William Shakespeare, The Tempest I ii 77 & 90 Prosper
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man, BBC 1973
All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I’m in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I’m a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning. Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts
Add to the fact that to have conscientiously studied the liberal arts refines behaviour and does not allow it to be savage. Ovid
Say not, when I have leisure I will study; perchance thou wilt never have leisure. Hillel the Elder, c.60 B.C. – A.D. c.9
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Francis Bacon, Essays: ‘Of Studies’, 1625
To spend too much time in studies is sloth. ibid.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. ibid.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. ibid.
I have rather studied books than men. Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice ... to the Duke of Buckingham
I would live to study, and not study to live. Francis Bacon, Memorial of Access to King James I
Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. I Thessalonians 4:11
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Ecclesiastes 12:12
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Atwood H Townsend
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen. John Adams
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Read. Do not brood. Immerse yourself in long study: only the habit of persistent work can make one continually content; it produces an opium that numbs the soul. Gustave Flaubert, 1821-80
The proper study of mankind is books. Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, 1921
‘He averaged an hour, an hour a day he averaged.’ The Theory of Everything 2014 starring Eddie Redmayne & Felicity Jones & Charlie Cox & Emily Watson & Simon McBurney & David Thewlis & Maxine Peake & Harry Lloyd & Charlotte Hope et al, director James Marsh, friend at celebration dinner
So I believed in studying just because I knew that education was a privilege. And it wasn’t so much necessarily the information that you were studying, but just the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don’t want to do, to receive the information. Wynton Marsalis