Studious Quotes - Page 2

• Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Sober, Frugal

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

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• 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

  School, Science, Men

  "oulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-century France" by C. Stewart Gillmor, Princeton University Press, (pp. 255-261), 1971.

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• 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

  Book, Health, Loss

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• Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Nature, Luxury, Silence

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• The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Reflection, Men

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• So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was no vulgarity in it. There was no bombast. There wasn't any of the usual Trump braggadocio. It was a teleprompter speech, but it was serious, studious, and it represented a solid understanding of issues and of the status quo.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Military, Philadelphia, Issues

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Learn diligence before speedy execution.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Execution, Diligence, Application

  Trevor J. Fairbrother, Chiyo Ishikawa, Leonardo (Da Vinci.) (1997). “Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science : [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Seattle Art Museum, October 23, 1997, to January 4, 1998]”, University of Washington Press

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• Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Students, Study

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1705, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Crazy, Guy, Intellectual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Beer, Boys, Bed

  Tammara Webber (2012). “Easy”, p.33, Penguin UK

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• Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

  George Sandys

  Men, Lazy, Ignorant

  1610 On the monks of Patmos. Relation of aJourney Begun An. Dom.1610.

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• The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sex, Passion, Knowledge

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.375

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• 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

  Desire, Trying, Way

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• Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

  Midge Decter

  Powerful, Fate, Men

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• 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

  Rays, Genius, Chess

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• Let fools the studious despise,
  There's nothing lost by being wise.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Wise, Knowledge, Fool

  Jean de La Fontaine (1853). “The Fables of La Fontaine”, p.187

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• Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Feels

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.42, Penguin

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• I always enjoy being full of fun, but I have my serious moments. Some women go for the studious kind of guy, I certainly was not that. If a girl is looking for somebody different and maybe a little more exciting for themselves - someone more on the fun side, I would suggest that they look for a type like Don Rickles.

  Don Rickles

  Girl, Fun, Guy

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• Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs. Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way.

  Howard S. Becker

  Musical, Needs, Use

  "Visual Research Methods". Book by Peter Hamilton, 2006.

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• 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

  Simple, Men, Age

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.542, Univ of California Press

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• Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Athlete, College, Artist

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• 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

  Men, Care, Littles

  Samuel Johnson, Sir John Hawkins (1787). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...”, p.490

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• My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes, the popular ones - and we never crossed paths with each other. You stayed in your air-tight group, and you were suspicious of people in other groups.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Athlete, School, Kids

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Humanity, Mind, World

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1959). “Against nature: a new translation of À rebours”

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• 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

  Player, World, Littles

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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