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Quotes About Study

When I moved to Bengaluru to study law, I was looking forward to joining a theatre troupe.
~ Shraddha Srinath
Learning is my sole delight.
~ Francesco Petrarca
Aristippus said: That those that studied particular sciences, and neglected philosophy, were like Penelope's wooers, that made love to the waiting women.
~ Francis Bacon
If you read a piece of text through twenty times, you will not learn it by heart so easily as if you read it ten times while attempting to recite from time to time and consulting the text when your memory fails.
~ Francis Bacon
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
~ Francis Crick
Forgetting, I would even say historical error, is essential to the creation of a nation, which is why the advance of historical study often poses a threat to nationality.
~ Francis Fukuyama
John knew that if you push the so-called Sola Scriptura Calvinist approach and the "inerrancy" ideas to their absurd limit, all real study of the Bible stops. It becomes a magical text. It is no longer open to interpretation. Dogma replaces study, because scholarship can only be meaningful when you are allowed to ask real questions and let the chips fall where they may. It
~ Frank Schaeffer
Not unlike Lorenz's emphasis on knowing the whole animal, Imanishi urged us to empathize with the species under study. We need to get under its skin, he said, or as we would nowadays put it, try to enter its Umwelt.
~ Frans de Waal
American naturalist William Morton Wheeler made the English term popular as the study of "habits and instincts."11
~ Frans de Waal
Since the average person fears public speaking more than death, subjects in a study were asked to address an audience.
~ Frans de Waal
There is in fact no data demonstrating that men are more hierarchical than women. The only difference one study reported is that when people are put together in same-gender groups, men settle on a rank order more quickly than women. Women do eventually always form one, however.
~ Frans de Waal
Ironically, the study of animal cognition not only raises the esteem in which we hold other species, but also teaches us not to overestimate our own mental complexity. We
~ Frans de Waal
The study of human psychology usually relies on the use of questionnaires, which are heavy on self-reported feelings and light on actual behavior. But I favor the reverse. We need more
~ Frans de Waal
The study of human psychology usually relies on the use of questionnaires, which are heavy on self-reported feelings and light on actual behavior.
~ Frans de Waal
In a famous 1987 study, researchers Michael Diehl and Wolfgang Stroebe from Tubingen University in Germany concluded that brainstorming groups have never outperformed virtual groups.7 Of
~ Frans Johansson
It is recommendable to study even at unusual hours: The Prophet woke up in the night and had his household awakened in order to exhort them.—The Prophet prayed and exhorted people after nightfall.
~ Franz Rosenthal
We are sent into this world for some end. It is our duty to discover by close study what this end is and when we once discover it to pursue it
~ Fred Kaplan
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.
~ Fred Saberhagen
Salv? ("Greetings!"), and WELCOME to the study of classical Latin, or what I affectionately call "The Mother Tongue"!
~ Frederic M. Wheelock
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.
~ Brandon Sanderson
This is insanity!" "No, this is scholarship!
~ Brandon Sanderson
You learned this," Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, "from a book." "Er…yes?" He looked back at the picture. "I need to read more.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I wasn't a nerd, mind you, but I'd spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I'd had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.
~ Brandon Sanderson