And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The proper study of mankind is books.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.
And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.
The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth.
In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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