"If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?"
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"If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further."
"The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas."
"Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation."
"Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day."
"If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness."
"I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies."
"I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating."
"A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life."
"The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate."
"Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties."
"The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived."
"In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero."
"A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit."
"Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare."
"Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn."
"I would study, I would know, I would admire forever."
"If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies."
"One can never study nature too much and too hard"
"That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter."