Quotes of: Studies Keyword

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.

Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

Sorcerer's Apprentice

Fool. He's as bad as Watson, trying to throw himself in harm's way for the sake of the Great Detective.

A Study in Darkness

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Plato

I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.

Laurieann Gibson

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.

Millard Drexler

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

Maimonides

Music is a supernatural force on the earth. It has the power to transform the heart and mind.

A Kid's Study Guide To Praise

The path to greatness begins with your willingness to take small steps.

A Kid's Study Guide To Praise

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Francis Bacon

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

Jackson Browne

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.

William Kirby

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Thomas Sowell

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

Tom Araya

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

Thomas R. Cech

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Hermann Hesse

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

Michael Gove