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    (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.

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Me therefore studious of laborious ease.

Me therefore studious of laborious ease.

by William Cowper Found in: Study Quotes,
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Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease.
[Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.]

Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease.
[Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.]

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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.

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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does read more

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.

by Woodrow Wilson Found in: Study Quotes,
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You are in some brown study.

You are in some brown study.

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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous read more

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries

by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy 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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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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Found in: Study Quotes,
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