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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"In none of the cases examined in this study was the existence of these gun registration records of any assistance in detecting a crime and no one questioned during the course of this study could offer any evidence to establish the value of the system of registering weapons." »Colin Greenwood
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"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself." »Pierre Charron
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"Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom." »John A. Rassias
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"To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all." »Sir William Osler
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"Etymology, n.:
Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."" »Mike Kellen
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"study men, not historians." »Harry S Truman
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"Generally we study too much and think too little." »Hary Latham Doherty
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"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come." »Abraham Lincoln
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"The true science and study of man is man." »Pierre Charron
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"The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics." »Francis Bacon
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"No one should be judge in his own case." »Publilius Syrus
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"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself" »Sir Richard F. Burton
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"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." »Sir Richard Francis Burton
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"Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create." »Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
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"study the past if you would define the future." »Confucius
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"“The more I study, the more I learn and absorb, the more I realize how truly little I know."" »Steve Maraboli
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"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." »Richard Buckminster Fuller
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"The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom." »Jean Bodin
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"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study." »Chinese Proverb
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"Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently." »Anonymous
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." »Mortimer Adler
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"In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark." »Nicholson Baker
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"The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest." »Conan Doyle
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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity." »Barbara Stanwyck
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"What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question" »Gertrude Stein
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"study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." »Leonardo da Vinci
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