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“Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“There is no study better fitted than that of geology to impress upon men of general culture that conviction of the unbroken sequence of the order of natural phenomena, throughout the duration of the universe, which is the great, and perhaps the...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; in brief, sir, study what you most affect.” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“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, Pensées
“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straitly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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