115 Quotes About Studying

Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study?

-Chris Sardegna

  • Author Mark Haddon
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    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.

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    #growing-up #marriage #studying
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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

  • Author A.D. Aliwat
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    Now, weed isn’t always bad for studying—it’s especially useful for looking at all the facets of a thing, its layers; really getting and feeling it. But it can be a little trickier to find the specific thread tying separate things, as opposed to forcing one to string them together, appreciating in reality what should be most relevant in a system of interconnected parts.

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Now, weed isn’t always bad for studying—it’s especially useful for looking at all the facets of a thing, its layers; really getting and feeling it. But it can be a little trickier to find the specific thread tying separate things, as opposed to forcing one to string them together, appreciating in reality what should be most relevant in a system of interconnected parts.

-A.D. Aliwat

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!

-Israelmore Ayivor

We learn from the pages of history who we are and who we have been. We learn from our greatness and our darkness. We cannot predict the future, but studying where we've been helps us better understand where we are.

-Leslie Odom Jr.

Doit chascuns panser et antandreA bien dire et a bien aprandre ;Qu'il est louable de s'appliquerà bien dire et à bien enseigner.

-Chrétien de Troyes

Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.

-Idries Shah

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.

-Marcella Purnama

  • Author Nicholas Carr
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    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.

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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

 

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