| "History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology." »Wystan Hugh Auden |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world." »Samuel Johnson |
| "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." »Anais Nin |
| "As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook." »Joseph Conrad |
| "I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom |
| "Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers." »Leo C. Rosten |
| "Generally we study too much and think too little." »Hary Latham Doherty |
| "I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "study men, not historians." »Harry S Truman |
| "study the past if you would define the future." »Confucius |
| "The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom." »Jean Bodin |
| "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." »Sir Richard Francis Burton |
| "If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics." »Francis Bacon |
| "Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently." »Anonymous |
| "A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study." »Chinese Proverb |
| "To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice." »Henry Ward Beecher |
| "There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all." »Sydney Smith |
| "Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy." »Arthur Guiterman |
| "No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one." »Archibald Wavell |
| "By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows." »Ovid |
| "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man." »Alexander Pope |
| "Millions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study." »Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke |
| "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem." »Bill Vaughan |
| "A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
| "I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball." »Gerald Early |
| "The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things..." »Richard Phillips Feynman |
| "A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance." »George Bernard Shaw |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
