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All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would, It doth forget to do the thing it should; And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth. (Quote by - Odysseus Elytis)

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. (Quote by - Marty Allen)

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. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. (Quote by - Sean O'Casey)

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. (Quote by - Dennis Miller)

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. (Quote by - Sir Archibald Wavell)

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

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. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

A lot of people see it as negative the greater range of courses and subjects you can study now, but with more and more career options I think this is a good and healthy thing. (Quote by - Peter Fraser)

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. (Quote by - John Milton)

These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. (Quote by - Cicero)

The proper study of mankind is books. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study (Quote by - John Phillips Marquand)

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. (Quote by - Cicero)

I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning (Quote by - Mario Lopez)

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture. (Quote by - Gunnar Myrdal)

And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind. (Quote by - Alexander Barclay)

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