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“A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.”

World Years School Boys Study Five Youth Masters Public School True Wisdom Knowledge Of The World

Book:An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions

Source: An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions

“Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.”

Children Mother Father Parent Natural Study Sweet Cherish Housekeeping

Book:Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell

Source: Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell

“Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.”

Ifs Lying Interest Study Events Appearance Surface Seeds Historian Biographies Delightful Utility True Life Too Deep Great Events

Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

“We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure.”

Giving Long Together Speak Enjoy Opinion Study Diversity Raises Silent Leaving Leisure Questioning Preference Offence Tumult Leaving Him

Book:Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

“Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.”

Men Made Careers Study Huge Gains Access Planning Wages Pills Family Planning

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and everything in my study. Because there's such a cascade of images and ideas that I'm grapping with mentally, I couldn't also be in a chaotic setting.”

Book Ideas Order Study Setting Settings Pregnant Closets Chaotic Tidy Moles Cascade

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.”

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Author:Diane Ackerman

“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.”

Men Feels Heart Passion Study Sadness Despair Weakness Depth Arise Emptiness Nothingness Dependence Gloom Weariness Diversion Vexation Insufferable Insufficiency

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.”

Ifs Men Should Study Impossible

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.”

Ifs Looks May Action Chance Study Streets Thousand Hundred Conscience Excuse Witness Thee Retirement Multitudes Thyself

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.”

Way Humans Individual Cities Study Childhood Century Adults Complicated Finished Versions Curious Fascinating Transformed Infant

Book:GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

Source: GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

“most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live.”

People Feels Humans Kind Science Human Beings Situation Study Scientist Experiments

Book:Blkberry Winter

Source: Blkberry Winter

“The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They were the people of The Book in the truest sense of the word. They knew of no greater joy than the study of man and human relations, which they called Torah, Talmud, Mussar, Cabala.”

People Men Humans Book Joy Study Greater Truth Is Relation Ghetto Truest Human Relations Torah Yiddish

Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.”

Reason Natural Quality Teach Study Greater Lessons Benefits Extremes Favors Limitation Submit Muse Moderation Wildness

Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.”

Thinking History Study Comfortable Hopefully Incline

Book:Under dispute

Source: Under dispute

“A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.”

Soul Body Perfect Study Wise Poet Pure Shapes All Things Intense Good Wise

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.”

Giving Mind Study Meditation Argument Vigor

Book:The Beauties of the Late Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts

Source: The Beauties of the Late Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts

“Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.”

Mind May Imagination Study Strikes Something New Perpetual

Author:Isaac Watts

“When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.”

Ifs Mind Two Three Study Logic Secure Dry Entertaining Pursued Weariness

Author:Isaac Watts

“The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.”

Stills Enough Facts Spirit Simple Study Too Much Excess Indulge Inner Life Indulge In

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.”

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more valuable one is the ancient function of metaphor, as it was of alchemy.”

Light Study Function Ancient Metaphor Valuable Golden Substance Alchemy Implicit Golden Light

Author:Patricia Hampl

“The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.”

Important Ends Seems History Study Mankind Events Civilization Conviction Important Events

Author:Madame de Stael

“The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.”

Passion Hours Pleasure Study Source Independent Rational Enjoyment Each Day Perpetual Supplies Vigor

Book:Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself

Source: Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself

“One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.”

“Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.”

Art Study Doors Color Painting Wings Sticks Tiny Butterfly Canvas Insects Pencils Combining Barns Butterfly Wings

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.”

“I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.”

People Should Book Literature Levels Education Study Pride Prejudice University Silly Not Sure

Author:Susan Sontag

“Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense: Then perseverance, never to decline The chase of riches till the prey is thine; And firmness never to be drawn away By any passion from that noble prey-- By love, ambition, study, travel, fame, Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that small regard to rule Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school; That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street.”

Mind Children Stills School Mother Poor Pay Class Study Wife Streets Regard Patient Busy Humble Thirty Awe Infant Deaf Widows Trifling Huts

Book:The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author

“If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.”

Ifs Writing Wells Wish Study Streets

Author:Horace Mann

“Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance.”

Ifs Humans Different Human Beings Views Known Study Personality Mountain Creatures Increase Revelations Significance Composites Repaying

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”

Want Needs Children Helping Kids Study Rhetoric

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.”

Study Kings Please Slavery Servant Grants Beggar

Book:The plays of Philip Massinger

Source: The plays of Philip Massinger

“Well you always want to play against the best. That's what you're going to get in the Super Bowl. To go against guys like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady who I have tons of respect for; I watch their games, I study their games, I try to learn from them. It gets you excited, but hopefully not too excited. Just focus on the game. Then when my career is done then I can look back at it.”

Want Trying Wells Looks I Can Done Play Guy Games Careers Watches Study Focus Excited Hopefully Nfl Toms Bowls Super Bowl Brady Peyton Hopefully Not

Author:Russell Wilson

“Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.”

Political Causes Moral Economy Study Effects Economics Weather Discussion Poetic Creeds Cause And Effect Meteorology

Book:Basic Economics

Source: Basic Economics

“Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.”

Self Helping Understanding Hurt Study Conscious Photographer Organized Composition Constructs Self Conscious

Author:Berenice Abbott

“You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.”

Way Study Fate Mystery Lessons Approach Murder Series Metaphor Variety Combination Manifestation Peculiar Hobbies Psychics Eccentric One Woman Unexplained Forensics Murder Mysteries

Author:Robert Gottlieb

“If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.”

Ifs Study Teacher Subjects Food Cooking Culinary Chocolate Affected Pupils Headmasters History Teacher

Author:Roald Dahl

“My favorite quote about entrepreneurship is that to understand an entrepreneur, you should study a juvenile delinquent. They're both saying: "This sucks and I'm going to do it another way." You have to want to break the rules and prove that your way works.”

Way Want Should Break Study Prove Entrepreneur My Favorite Entrepreneurship Another Way Juvenile Delinquents

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television”

Thinking Play Guy Situation Study Stage Television Anxious Broadway Matthew Hiatus Understudies Horsing Around

Author:David Lee

“I don't think it's particularly useful to be going to another country and staying in a classroom and just studying in the classroom. What's important, I think, is to get immersed into the local economy.”

Thinking Important Country Economy Study Locals Staying Classroom What's Important

Author:Robert J. Dolan

“I'm a believer that there are three fundamental ways that you can think about education. They're being a professor upfront, lecturing, telling what's inside your head, some case studies in which you are in discussion and also an action based learning.”

Thinking Way Action Three Cases Study Fundamentals Believer Discussion Professors Lecturing Case Studies

Author:Robert J. Dolan

“Сase studies are a tremendous device for developing problem solving skills, which are really valuable.”

Problem Study Skills Valuable Developing Devices Problem Solving

Author:Robert J. Dolan

“Any time you add something to your game, you still have to find ways to improve, so I'm still studying the game and trying to find out ways to increase how we use me on the floor. You're not being complacent, not falling back and floating around the perimeter too much, figuring out when to attack. I'm trying to find that balance between attacking and spotting up and things like that.”

Way Trying Stills Use Fall Games Study Too Much Balance Increase Add Floating Attacking Complacent Using Me Perimeter

Author:Blake Griffin

“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.”

Ifs Needs Writing Kind Long Spiritual Turns Prayer Silence Study Teacher Tvs Periods Solitude Deeper Turn-on Spiritual Teachers Journaling

Author:Richard Rohr

“I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.”

Long Wanted Stuff Study Long Time Scientist Forensics

Author:Bex Taylor-Klaus

“I'm amazed at the Democrats and the media who do not know what's going on in my world. I know what's going on in theirs. I study 'em. I watch 'em every day.”

Knows World Watches Study Media Democrat Ems Amazed

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.”

Death Born Lines Study Discipline

Author:Philip Massinger

“Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.”

Ifs Thinking Years Littles Long Has Beens Sometimes Dream Age Faces Three Next Study Hundred Three Years Portraits Next Day Three Year Olds

Book:Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand