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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
(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.
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself read more
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently
For he as studious--of his ease.
For he as studious--of his ease.
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?
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
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 read more
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.