So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Nicolaus Copernicus

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
Alan Watts

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Honore de Balzac

I didn't study; I live.
Eric Cantona

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Thomas Merton

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Hermann Hesse

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus

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?
Blaise Pascal

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William James

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
Mercy Otis Warren

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
Gustav Klimt