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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
John Ruskin
“I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.”
Lew Wallace
“The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.”
Henry Miller
“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”
Henry L. Doherty
“Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird cage.”
Will Stanton
“Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem”
Bill Vaughn
“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.”
William Osler
“Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.”
Winston Churchill
“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.”
Lauren Bacall
