"When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely."
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"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
"Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result."
"Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille."
"To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies."
"Bible study without Bible experience is pointless."
"The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child."
"Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor."
"It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized."
"I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac."
"I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively."
"Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest."
"There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man."
"We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women."
"I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get."
"Study the past if you want to define the future."
"We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new."
"The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature."
"No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude."
"We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such."