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The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Joel S. Goldsmith, fully Joel Solomon Goldsmith
The purpose of our study is that God may reveal Itself as our individual consciousness: I am the Word become flesh. The beginning of wisdom is when we draw our attention away from the outer world, from the world of effect or appearance, and begin to realize that power is not in it, but in me. All power is given unto me. I have dominion over everything that appears in the world of effect.
Attention | Beginning | God | Individual | Power | Purpose | Purpose | Study | Wisdom | World | God |
Louis Agassiz, fully Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
Johann Spurzheim, fully Johann Gaspar Spurzheim or Kaspar or Caspar
Experience demonstrates that of any number of children of equal intellectual powers, those who receive no particular care in infancy, and who do not begin to study till the constitution begins to be consolidated, but who enjoy the benefit of a good physical education, very soon surpass in their studies those who commenced earlier, and who read numerous books when very young.
Joseph Fourier, fully Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.
Jerome Bruner, fully Jerome Seymour Bruner
The objective of skilled agency and collaboration in the study of the human condition is to achieve not unanimity, but more consciousness. And more consciousness always implies more diversity.
Consciousness | Study |
Joseph Fourier, fully Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study has the advantage of excluding vague questions and useless calculations; besides it is a sure means of forming analysis itself and of discovering the elements which it most concerns us to know, and which natural science ought always to conserve.
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
There is a strong temptation to assume that presenting subject matter in its perfected form provides a royal road to learning. What more natural than to suppose that the immature can be saved time and energy, and be protected from needless error by commencing where competent inquirers have left off? The outcome is written large in the history of education. Pupils begin their study of science with texts in which the subject is organized into topics according to the order of the specialist. Technical concepts, with their definitions, are introduced at the outset. Laws are introduced at a very early stage, with at best a few indications of the way in which they were arrived at. The pupils learn a "science" instead of learning the scientific way of treating the familiar material of ordinary experience.
Error | History | Learning | Order | Science | Study | Temptation | Time | Learn | Temptation |
J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
Children | History | Liberty | Mathematics | Order | Politics | Right | Study |
Joost Meerloo. fully Joost Abraham Maurits Meerlo
The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Joost Meerloo. fully Joost Abraham Maurits Meerlo
The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.
Apathy | Desire | Study | Propaganda |
Henri Poincaré, fully Jules Henri Poincaré
Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects; to them it is a matter of indifference if these objects are replaced by others, provided that the relations do not change. Matter does not engage their attention, they are interested in form alone.
Indifference | Study |
Henri Poincaré, fully Jules Henri Poincaré
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. Of course I do not here speak of that beauty that strikes the senses, the beauty of qualities and appearances; not that I undervalue such beauty, far from it, but it has nothing to do with science; I mean that profounder beauty which comes from the harmonious order of the parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.
Beauty | Intelligence | Life | Life | Nature | Nothing | Order | Qualities | Study | Worth | Beauty |
Dōgen, aka Dōgen Kigen, Eihei Dōgen, titled as Dōgen Zenji NULL
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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