Top 86 Studious Quotes & Sayings

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

As a studious schoolgirl, I'd go back into the classroom every autumn brimming with enthusiasm.

Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome and boring.

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

At home, my parents were quite old, so the surrounding was of elder people. There was no noise. Reading books was encouraged; TV was not encouraged, so I was the geeky, studious type of girl.

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

Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.]

Most of the stuff I've done is quite serious, so I'm usually studious.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

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.

I'd basically described myself: a quiet, studious bookworm who would go to bed at a decent hour. A non-partier who wouldn't bring a parade of boys through our room, or make it the floor headquarters for beer pong.

I was a studious child, heavily into academics. For the longest time, I wouldn't talk.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

Looking back, I was a very good kid, very studious and all. But I would always come out with a quip - and I was sent to the principal's office several times.

What people are going to be surprised about is that Tia and I are really different. We're nothing like the characters on 'Sister, Sister.' We're kind of swapped. I was the crazy, mischievous one on the show - Tia was the studious, more serious one.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

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

Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.

Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.

I'm quite a studious person, I think.

Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

I was very studious.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

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.

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

When I was a kid, I used to do my homework in the living room, where there was a picture window. I was hoping that someone would walk by and see me looking very studious in my living room.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

I never thought I could be an actor, as I was always a studious geek and was always interested in mathematics.

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

How do we escape who we are? I think, going to college, I felt freer. I loved the clean slate. I wasn't known as the sort of nerdy, studious girl. I met gay people for the first time in my life. I needed that expansion from a very conservative little town.

On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.

I was very studious and square in college.

I was always very studious and intelligent.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

I would score well, though I was not studious. I was a naughty kid, but not many know that fact.

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.

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

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

I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

There is a slight tomboyish side to me. But I was studious, and I did not bunk classes!

As a kid, I was overly studious, overly serious, very academically driven. It was important to me on a cellular level to do well. And then I went to college at Harvard, and I relaxed a little bit.