UK Study Guide

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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet.)

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
(Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) Twenty-eighth President of the USA.)

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
(Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist.)

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men’s clothes.
(Chinese proverb)

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
(Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-43 BC) Writer, politician and great roman orator.)

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American author and poet.)

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) U.S. poet.)

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
-Mary Wilson Little

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
-Charles Caleb Colton

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
-William Ramsay

You’ll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
-Odysseus Elytis

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
-Walter Savage Landor

The more you understand, the less you have to remember.
-RockHanger Craig A. McCraw

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
-Confucius

The proper study of mankind is books.
-Aldous Huxley

The proper study of Mankind is Man.
-Alexander Pope

You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
-Richard Bach

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
-Ernest Holmes

You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.
-Edward Abbey

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
-William James

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-B. F. Skinner

Study without thought is vain: thought without study is dangerous.
-Confucious

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