Quotes on Studious

Throughout elementary and middle school, I was used to hearing other words: Smart. Studious. Well-spoken. Well-read. They became pillars of my self-confidence, enabling me to build myself up on what I contributed rather than what I looked like.

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

Let fools the studious despise,_x000D_ _x000D_ There's nothing lost by being wise.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.