“Study” can refer to a few different things, depending on the context:
Noun – Academic Endeavor: A study can refer to a dedicated and systematic effort to gain knowledge or understanding of a particular subject, usually in an academic or scholarly context. This involves researching, reading, analyzing, and learning about a specific topic.
Noun – Research Project: A study can also refer to a research project or investigation designed to gather data and information about a particular phenomenon, often with the aim of drawing conclusions or making discoveries. This type of study can be conducted in various fields, including science, social sciences, medicine, and more.
Verb – Act of Learning: To “study” as a verb means engaging in the process of learning or acquiring knowledge through focused reading, research, practice, and other educational activities.
Verb – Examine Closely: It can also mean closely examining or scrutinizing something to understand its details or characteristics. For example, one might “study” a painting, a map, or a situation to gain a better understanding of it.
In the context of education and learning, “study” often involves reading textbooks, articles, or other materials; attending lectures or classes; participating in discussions; and conducting research to deepen one’s understanding of a particular subject. It’s a fundamental aspect of academic and intellectual growth.
Study Quotes
1. “I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.”
— Wayne Dyer
2. “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
— Kofi Annan
3. “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
— B. B. King
4. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
— Nelson Mandela
5. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
— Malcolm X
6. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
— Pele
7. “Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
— George S. Patton
8. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
— Benjamin Franklin
9. “Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”
— William A. Ward
10. “It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts… it is to teach them to think.”
— Robert M. Hutchins
11. “You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
— Anatole France
12. “Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
— Victor Hugo
13. “I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.”
— Natalie Portman
14. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
— General Colin Powell
15. “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
— Atwood H. Townsend
16. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
— Albert Einstein
17. “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
18. “Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.”
— Albert Einstein
19. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
— Confucius
20. “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
— Marilyn vos Savant
21. “Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.”
— Richard Baxter
22. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
— Dr. Seuss
23. “I’d tell myself to not feel pressure about time, that every moment you invest on watching, exploring, studying and enjoying what you love to do, that all becomes part of becoming what you want to be.”
— Rose
24. “A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.”
— Mary Shelley
25. “As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.”
— Afrika Bambaataa
26. “When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that’s not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.”
— Erno Rubik
27. “I’m always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn’t stop.”
— Jocko Willink
28. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
— Thomas Jefferson
29. “Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita
30. “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
31. “If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.”
— Malcolm Gladwell
32. “Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
— Jim Rohn
33. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
— Robert Collier
34. The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”
— John D. Rockefeller
35. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”
— John Maxwell
36. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
— Arthur Ashe
37. “There is no substitute for hard work.”
— Thomas Edison
38. “Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”
— Warren Bennis
39. “It does not matter where you go and what you study, what matters most is what you share with yourself and the world.”
— Santosh Kalwar
40. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
41. “There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
— Samuel Johnson
42. “Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
43. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
— Oscar Wilde
44. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
— Henry Ford
45. “The research I have been doing – studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells – does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.”
— Hans Adolf Krebs
46. “That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.”
— Leonard Nimoy
47. “The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment… We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet’s father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
48. “It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.”
— Jean Piaget
49. “A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionize biology, medicine and biotechnology.”
— Paul Davies
50. “Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you’re lucky, you get strange clues.”
— Lene Hau
51. “Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.”
— Joan D. Vinge
52. “Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue.”
— Sally Ride
53. “Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.”
— Richard P. Feynman
54. “You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.”
— Maimonides
55. “The thing you realize when you get into studying neuroscience, even a little bit, is that everything is connected to everything else. So it’s as if the brain is trying to use everything at its disposal – what it is seeing, what it is hearing, what is the temperature, past experience.”
— Paul Allen
56. “My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.”
— Jose Rizal
57. “I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.”
— Ed O’Neill
58. “Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.”
— Jonathan Stroud
59. “Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.”
— Fethullah Gulen
60. “It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.”
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
61. “Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.”
— Noam Chomsky
62. “I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that’s needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.”
— John Dalton
63. “I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city’s worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city’s Students Federation.”
— Jack Ma
64. “You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.”
— Edward Abbey
65. “As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
66. “The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.”
— Boris Johnson
67. “If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.”
— Drew Houston
68. “Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on deep learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the process where software will automate software, automation will automate automation.”
— Mark Cuban
69. “I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
70. “We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.”
— David Suzuki
71. “I’ve been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.”
— Frankie Boyle
72. “Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.”
— Dōgen
73. “When I started studying acting, I was enamored of actors who used movement to enhance the language.”
— Steven Berkoff
74. “In school, I wasn’t a very good student – I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.”
— Ray Romano