It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.
The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty.
The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.
Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.
The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.
Hardships and handicaps can. . . stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered
The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.
I offer early Christianity as a case-study to show that the phenomena that we group under "religion(s)" comprise a somewhat artificial category, and that "religions" are not "all the same. "
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.
One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed. "
There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to study, they were doctors and surgeons, walking free, wearing what they wanted. That was when it was under Soviet occupation. Then the United States starts funding the mujahideen. Reagan called them Afghanistan's "founding fathers. " It reincarnates the idea of "jehad," virtually creates the Taliban.
Im studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to view one up close.
In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies
For knowledge is not given as gift. . . but through study. . . The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.