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“I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.”
Harry S Truman
“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever”
Samuel Smiles
“To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.”
William Osler
“Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.”
Phillip Guedala
“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.”
“The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one--and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!”
Arthur Rimbaud
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
Marilyn vos Savant
“Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.”
Galileo Galilei
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
John Adams
