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Study Quotes - Page 7

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play”, p.103

So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.54, Moody Publishers

If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.

Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set”, p.13, Moody Publishers

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.42, Melville House

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.63, Shambhala Publications

If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?"

Ronald Coase's speech to the "International Society of New Institutional Economics" in Washington, D.C., September 17, 1999.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

"Johnny Cash: 'I was evil. I really was' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Philip Norman, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

"The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.15, InterVarsity Press

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.18, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

"On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.