“ No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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“ The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge to flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities. ”
- Daniel Goleman- Copy
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“ We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in a structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, "surrounding" a subject rather than traversing it… ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
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“ I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot. ”
- Evan Hunter- Copy
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“ Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. ”
- James Dean- Copy
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“ The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living. ”
- William Beebe- Copy
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“ There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard. ”
- Zen Saying- Copy
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“ Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. ”
- Roy Blount Jr.- Copy
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“ I was a student in Pakistan, studying Islam. I came into contact with many people who were connected with the Taliban. ”
- John Walker Lindh- Copy
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“ John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester abroad program ever. ”
- Jimmy Fallon- Copy
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“ Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. ”
- Frederick W. Taylor- Copy
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“ Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Hedonic Engineering — The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil? ”
- Robert Wilson- Copy
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“ Semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign. A sign is everything which can be taken as significantly substituting for something else. This something else does not necessarily have to exist or to actually be somewhere at the moment in which a sign stands in for it… ”
- Umberto Eco- Copy
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“ When you are studying theology, your intention is not to learn a trade but to understand the faith, and this presupposes, as we said a while ago, using the words of Augustine, that the faith is true, that, in other words, it opens the door to a correct understanding of your own life, of the world and of men. ”
- Joseph Ratzinger- Copy
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“ I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously. ”
- Aishwarya Rai- Copy
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“ In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness… ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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