Studious Quotes

• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Learning, Rich, Frugal

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1815*). “The Life and Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin”, p.210

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• Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

  Samuel Johnson

  Failure, Failing, Ashamed

  'Irene' (1749) prologue

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• Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.

  Ambrose Philips

  Humble, Ease, Study

  Ambrose Philips (1768). “Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems”, p.67

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• 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

  Healthy, Wealth, Sober

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.68

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• Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Ignorance, Kind

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.148, University of Georgia Press

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• Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

  Midge Decter

  Inspiring, Powerful, Ideas

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• Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Virtue, Virtuous

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (1794). “Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself : together with essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes”

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• 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

  Time, Learning, Past

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• 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

  Kids, Ideas, Energy

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• I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Sex, Two

  Letter to Olivia Shakespear, Oct. 1927

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• I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Bible, Husband, Father

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• Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

  William Osler

  Reading, Men, Essentials

  Sir William Osler, Charles G. Roland (1969). “Wm. Osler: the continuing education”

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• Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

  Lord Byron

  Wisdom, Years, Exhausting

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

  William Cowper

  Men, Mind, Earth

  William Cowper, Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe, John William Cunningham (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence."”, p.240

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• 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

  Fun, Party, Thinking

  "Kiss' Simmons vs. NPR's Gross". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, articles.chicagotribune.com. February 20, 2002.

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• And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

  John Milton

  Religious, Light, Religion

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 157

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• 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

  Boys, Office, Brain

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• 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

  Teacher, Weekend, Should Have

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Exercise, Cake, Tea Drinking

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.653

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• As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

  William Wilberforce

  Pain, Taken, Idle

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• Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

  Alexander Pope

  Farewell, Night, Luxury

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.203

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• 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

  Religious, Feet, Light

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems”, p.51, Modern Library

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• The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

  James Joyce

  Silence, Library, Brightness

  "Ulysses".

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• 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

  Art, Father, Home

  "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.

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• You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious listener, think of all these creations which God has drawn out of nothing; . . . recognize everywhere the wisdom of God; never cease to wonder, and, through every creature, to glorify the Creator.

  Saint Basil

  Animal, Thinking, Air

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