Quotes About Study

So do you anthropologists study primitive people?' 'Yes, but the only primitive person I have ever studied is myself.

A study published in 2004 in the leading British medical journal, The Lancet, followed thirty thousand men and women on six continents and found that changing your lifestyle could prevent at least 90 percent of all heart disease. Yet for every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

I have traveled outside the mountains, but never lived apart from them. I always feared mountains would be as jealous, as unforgiving, as any spurned lover. Leave them and they may never take you back. Besides, I never felt a need to go. There is enough to study in these hills to last a lifetime.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her

He is a model reformer in that what he taught he had first lived, and what he lived he had first made sure of in the Scriptures. With study, conduct and teaching put deliberately in this right order, each of these was able to function properly at its best: study was saved from unreality, conduct from uncertainty, and teaching from insincerity and shallowness.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.

An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.

All my knowledge comes from research.

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.

Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.