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Letter "S" » Study
«If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education»
Author: Edward Everett
(Educator, Orator)
| About:
Education,
Study
| Keywords:
admitted, devoted, Examinations, This Boy, withdraw
«Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.»
«I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.»
«He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.»
«It always seems impossible until its done.»
«He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.»
«If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics,
Study
| Keywords:
Plato, studies
«A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| About:
History,
Mind,
Opinions,
Study
| Keywords:
emancipation, preliminary
«Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Prejudice,
Study
| Keywords:
central, central issues, fallacies, issues, previous, The central
«If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.»
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