Quotes About Study

I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

In history we studied the bog man. Do you remember the bog man? I was absolutely fascinated by this. When something brings the past into sharp focus as a child it creates an indelible impression.

The critical next step is to stop thinking of black swans the way most people do. They are not bolt-from-the-blue freak accidents that are impossible to understand or prevent. They can be studied. And mitigated.

God reveals Himself in nature and history, but the study of these is not necessarily theology, since both can be studied simply as they are in themselves apart from their revelational implications.

No Evangelical whose reading habits are a disgrace to the seriousness of the Christian ministry, or who spends more time before a television set than he does in serious reading in his study has the right to damn Nietzsche from the pulpit to some gruesome place in the Inferno.

I am always studying character. Everyone I meet is a new study.

Koan study is traditionally practiced in face-to-face encounters between student and teacher and requires an experiential, rather than an intellectual, grasp of the material.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

The habit of quiet, sustained, and sequential thought, directed to non-worldly subjects, of meditation, of study, develops the mind-body and renders it a better instrument; the effort to cultivate abstract thinking is also useful, as this raises the lower mind towards the higher, and draws into it the subtlest materials of the lower mental plane.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

He who has not repeatedly heard and studied the Gita, yet desires liberation, will be laughed at by children. But those who hear it and study it are not humans. They are certainly like the gods.

For study of the good and the bad in woman two women are a needless expense.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

I spend a lot of time reading.

So why don't we automatically place discipleship at the center of every ministry? Perhaps certain words put people off: influence, vision, submission, accountability, vulnerability, confession, study, sacrifice, and discipline.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

The transformation of a person is the end product of the study of Scriptures. We live by every word that comes from His mouth.

Many fear signs and wonders because of the possibility of deception. So, in order to prevent any opportunity of being deceived, they replace displays of power with religious traditions, Christian activities, or even Bible study. They often become satisfied with knowledge. But, when this happens, who is deceived?

If you assign ten new believers the task of studying the Bible to find God's heart for this generation, not one of them would conclude that spiritual gifts are not for today. You have to be taught that stuff!

This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.