Quotes About Study

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92]

So great was the mass of information forced upon the student, that he had no time to think of the mutual implications of the various branches of his knowledge.

To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

And above all, study, study, study ! All the genius in the world will not help you along with any art unless you become a hard student. It

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

Never tire to study. And to teach to others

To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?

The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar—is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment—is this not the mark of the gentleman?" (Analects 1.1)

There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.

Is it not indeed a pleasure to acquire knowledge and constantly to exercise oneself therein?

you cannot open a book without learning something

The Master said, Study as though you could never catch up, [and if you did,] you would still be fearful of losing it.

The Master said, "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." The Master said, "The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!"               The Master said, "Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;-this is knowledge.

I was not born with wisdom. I love the ancient teachings and have worked hard to attain to their level.

He polished the underside of the messtray with the sleeve of his shift and standing in the center of the room under the lightbulb he studied the face that peered dimly out of the warped steel like some maimed and raging djinn enconjured there.

I've studied much and learned little.

He was a person for study as well as action; and hence, notwithstanding the difficulties through which he passed in his youth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages: the Dutch tongue was become almost as vernacular to him as the English; the French tongue he could also manage; the Latin and the Greek he had mastered; but the Hebrew he most of all studied, "Because," he said, "he would see with his own eyes the ancient oracles of God in their native beauty.

Truthfully, the main thing I study in my study is the TV screen. My bedroom is where I read.

Uchiyama R?shi helped me a great deal in not allowing me to use zazen as an escape. He said, "You must know that behind zazen are the teachings of Buddhism, and behind them, your own life experience." These words went a long way in clarifying for me a passage in the Sh?b?-genz?: Genj? K?an (Actualizing the Koan): "To study Buddhism is to study the Self.

Looking deeply into the writings and sutras of past teachers does not mean to learn something that is unrelated to us. Studying ancient writings means to study our lives. To study the Tenzo Ky?kun came to mean for me that I would be studying my own life.

D?gen says here that to study Buddhism means to study one's Self; to learn Buddhism is to learn one's Self.

Marking and underscoring a book makes it more interesting, and far easier to review rapidly.