523 Quotes About Study

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

In Professor Dweck’s study, 128 fifth graders were given a puzzle to complete. After finishing, some children were praised for being smart, others for working hard. The children were then given the choice of a second task, one more difficult, but from which they “would learn a lot,” or one similar to the first. Sixty-seven percent of the kids called “smart” chose the easy task; 92 percent of those praised for working hard chose the more difficult task.

I've worked eleven years without a break, till a fire stopped me, and gave me a chance of studying. I can feel myself expanding, evolving. I defy even Starvation to stop me from finding out all I desire to know. And when I've got to know all I can, I shall pass it on to others.

Study like professionals, not like patients.

Research doesn't assure definite rewards, but it assures lesser risk.

Two subjects do not need the study, or knowledge, skill or licence; those are sex and love. Some people make the industry of that without paying the taxes.

Isana had never understood men who made it a point to put trophies of their hunts on the walls. Gaius's study, its walls lines with the carcasses of books he had torn open and devoured, reminded her of nothing so much as old Aldo's hunting lodge, back in the Calderon Valley, and she thought it only marginally less boastful.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

Time is the study of God.