The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
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The true science and study of man is man.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.. I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
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Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
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Never utter these words 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know know to understand understand to judge.
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The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things..
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Study men, not historians.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
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Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.
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Say not, when I have leisure I will study you may not have leisure.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
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Generally we study too much and think too little.
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To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.
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By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
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In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.
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The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
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