Studying

“When night hath set her silver lamp on high,Then is the time for study.”

“The seers of old had fully restrained selves, and were austere. Having abandoned the five strands of sensual pleasures, they practiced their own welfare. The brahmans had no cattle, no gold, no wealth. They had study as their wealth and grain. They guarded the holy life as their treasure.”

“Exhausting thought,And hiving wisdom with each studious year.”

“It is essential to every inquiry about duty that we keep before our eyes how far superior man is by nature to cattle and other beasts: they have no thought except for sensual pleasure and this they are impelled by every instinct to seek; but man's mind is nurtured by study and meditation.”

“Me therefore studious of laborious ease.”

“Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.”

“A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.”

“Studious of elegance and ease.”

“For he was studious—of his ease.”

“In his examination he was not so much interested in Joseph’s Latin or his fingering (in these matters he relied on the teachers’ reports, which he nevertheless spent an hour going over) as whether the boy had it in him by nature to become a musician in the higher sense of the word, whether he had the capacity for enthusiasm, subordination, reverence, worshipful service.”

“Do not say: ‘When I am free, I will study’; perhaps you will never be free.”

“In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.”

“Every Israelite has a duty to study, whether he is poor or rich, whether healthy or suffering, whether young or very old and in failing strength, even if he is poor and supported by charity or begs from door to door.”

“It is clear to you, I am sure, Lucilius, that no man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom.”

“I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.What is your study?”

“What is the end of study? Let me know?Ay, that is study's god-like recompense.”

“Study is like the heaven's glorious sun Save base authority from others' books.”

“So study evermore is overshot;'Tis won as towns with fire, so won, so lost.”

“Verily, the soul is content when that which it desires is learned, and becomes importunate in its pursuit when it is spurned.”

“School children and students who love God should never say: “For my part I like mathematics”; “I like French”; “I like Greek.” They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed towards God, is the very substance of prayer.”

“Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop. ... Its purpose cannot be given up for even a moment. To pursue it is to be human, to give it up to be a beast.”

“A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.”

“O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease,I slumbered seven years, and then lost my degrees.”

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”

“As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.”

“You are in some brown study.”

“Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.”

“Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.”

“One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts.”