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«I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively»
«Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.»
«It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it»
«He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.»
«If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics,
Study
| Keywords:
Plato, studies
«How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
abilities, acquirement, acquirements, appropriate, avoids, book of knowledge, Brain may, careless, conversant, encounter, hoard, hoarded, hoarding, hoards, observation, old gold, on the contrary, phrase, picturesque, pour, pour forth, studies, unbutton, unbuttoning, unmask, unmasked, unmasking, unmasks
«If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.»
«In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
apply, in the end, practically, retain, retaining, studies, The End
«I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
accomplishes, attractions, awakening, awakenings, boys, compulsion, elective, instructor, instructors, marking, opening, professor, pupils, put on, scholarship, schools, school system, studies, The Attractions, ungracious
«If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies; if the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
disastrous, headlong, studies, stun, stunned, stunning
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