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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow read more

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.

by Joseph Addison Found in: Study Quotes,
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Studious of elegance and ease.

Studious of elegance and ease.

by John Gay Found in: Study Quotes,
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O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease,
I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.

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

by Christopher Anstey Found in: Study Quotes,
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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least
interest to a serious and read more

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least
interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.

by William Butler Yeats Found in: Study Quotes,
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(Berowne:) What is the end of study, let me know?
(King:) What, that to know which else we should read more

(Berowne:) What is the end of study, let me know?
(King:) What, that to know which else we should not know.
(Berowne:) Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense?
(King:) Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Study Quotes,
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Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.

Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.

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

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

by William Shakespeare Found in: Study Quotes,
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

by Galileo Galilei Found in: Study Quotes,
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Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:
Small have read more

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:
Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save base authority from others' books.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Study Quotes,
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