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"I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity."
"A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world."
"Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." "Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
"These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect."
"Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man."
"Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known."
"If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance."
"If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience."
"It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?"
"Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions."
"An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?"
"The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed."
"Action takes precedence over study."
"One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery."
"To pray well is the better half of study."
"Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings."
"Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study."
"If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books."
"Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable."
"Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure."
