Quotes About Study

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.

The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language

Geography is the study of earth as the home of people

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.

You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.

Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.