Quotes About Study

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

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

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

Devote yourself to self education.

If you are at school you must be royalty because you have lots of subjects.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.