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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza

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

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
Walter Lippmann

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Nicolas de Chamfort

I didn't study; I live.
Eric Cantona

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
Marvin Gaye

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
Xun Zi

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
Xun Zi

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
Denis Diderot

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
Floyd Abrams

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
Twyla Tharp

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
James Cash Penney

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

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
Jackson Browne