Study Quotes
Lines on the discipline behind learning anything well.
This set covers study in more than one sense, from paying close attention to people to years spent training in a craft or a subject. One line contrasts studying with creating outright, hinting that observation and instinct don't always pull in the same direction. Related themes continue in About quotes.
Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If the study of fossils was not mentioned by Aristotle or Thucydides, and it wasn't, then it just didn't exist for many classicists and ancient historians.
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This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths.
About Quotes
6My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.
I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.
Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.
I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.
All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study.
Always Quotes
1You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
Whether it's academic study or the quiet work of understanding others, these quotes treat learning as an ongoing habit. See also Because quotes for more on motivation and reasoning.
