Study Quotes

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours.

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management.

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

The true science and study of man is man.

On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.