The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Charles Baudelaire

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
Bodhidharma

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
Ezra Pound

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
Daniel Goleman

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Audre Lorde

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
Joseph Wood Krutch

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
Jackie Chan

My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
Kate Moss

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
Ernest Holmes

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Edward Abbey

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Aleister Crowley

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
John Ruskin

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
Dennis Miller

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Ovid