Studying Quotes
82 quotes
"To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
"Old words are reborn with new faces."
"Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!"
"Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Grades are still important, but they are not the most important things. As clichéd as it is, the things you learn outside class is more important than the textbooks you blindly memorize in time for exams."
"The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wrong. It keeps his mouth shut, his ears open, and his research extensive. And yet this is also the deadliest because when he is in fact proven wrong, he absolutely refuses to acknowledge it. It then keeps his mouth open, his ears shut, and his research inexistent."
"Acquiring knowledge is the most fruitful effort."
"If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world."
"The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon."
"Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus."
"Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life."
"Don't be afraid to study hard: knowledge never exhausts the mind."
"... theory is good for you because studying it expands your mind... Specific technical knowledge, though useful today, becomes outdated in just a few years. Consider instead the abilities to think, to express yourself clearly and precisely, to solve problems, and to know when you haven’t solved a problem. These abilities have lasting value. Studying theory trains you in these areas."
"You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook."
"Learning, empowering, studying, practicing, and not repeating the same mistakes will help you move forward, move up, and move on to where you want to be."
"Scott himself had taught me that in the boundless sphere of the intellect there is no prudishness, no shockability. There is only evaluation of facts, and a morality founded on truth."
"The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education."
"Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you."
"Grades are still important, buy they are not the most important things. As clichéd as it is, the things you learn outside class is more important than the textbooks you blindly memorize in time for exams."
"Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time…the parties…”"What about the tutorials, the lectures, the large building with all the books called the ‘library’?”“Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied."
"What they display, these students who don't arrive in the reading room until nine, or even later, is a kind of daring. They play with life, with possibilities. For me my studies are like a tightrope I'm balancing on, life will begin only when I've reached the other side. Only when I'm standing there triumphantly, with a glowing testimonial and glittering results, only then, I think to myself, will I be free."
"Two to three hours of studying a night, Is good medicine for the soul,I have tried this remedy,It never grows old"
"You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others."
"And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her parents asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to."
"Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power had a way of distorting your personality. And to actually want to work that hard, you had to be at least a little bit screwed up."
"Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job and earn lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash my clothes, or I will get a lady to marry me and be my wife and she can look after me so I can have company and not be on my own."
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
"How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life."
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
"Dr. Paul Ekman is a great guy... studying micro-expressions... gestures... and many other facial expression... body movements...."
"I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else."
Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
"Reading is learning: Secure Future and earnings"
"The treasure of life, learning."
"Some of the test subjects were given cards that had both words printed in full, like this:Hot: ColdOthers used cards that showed only the first letter of the second word, like this:Hot: CThe people who used the cards with the missing letters performed much better in a subsequent test measuring how well they remembered the word pairs. Simply forcing their minds to fill in a blank, to act rather than observe, led to stronger retention of information."
Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."
Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 16: November 1789 to July 1790
"You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom."
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive."
"What you learn is your personal treasure. No one can take it away from you."
"Dare to outlearn your best performance."
"Life is learning process. We must keep learning."
"Learn with great passion.Learn with great enthusiasm."
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"
"No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!"
"Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults."
"Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it."
"Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools."
"If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers"
"NASA has decades of experience in studying the effects of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) and their experiments show that continuous habitation of an alien environment in Space results in sickness in less than a year in astronauts and a similar environment on Earth produces ill health in humans in just two years."
"Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study?"
"I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape."
"Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues."
"Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability."
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