WIST Quotations

Gandhi, Mohandas -- Speech to students, Agra, in Young India (19 Sep 1929)

Dave — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:49:31 +0000

All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.

Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist [Mahatma Gandhi]
Speech to students, Agra, in Young India (19 Sep 1929)

Bacon, Francis -- “Of Studies,” Essays, No. 50 (1625)

Dave — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:37:05 +0000

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
“Of Studies,” Essays, No. 50 (1625)
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Brewster, Kingman -- (Attributed)

Dave — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:44:31 +0000

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned … it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919-1988) American educator, diplomat
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Russell, Bertrand -- “The Study of Mathematics,” Mysticism and Logic (1918)

Dave — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:08:30 +0000

Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of the mind.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“The Study of Mathematics,” Mysticism and Logic (1918)
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Reynolds, Joshua -- “Discourse Eleven” (10 Dec 1782)

Dave — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:10:07 +0000

The great business of study is to form a mind adapted and adequate to all times and all occasions; to which all nature is then laid open, and which may be said to possess the key of her inexhaustible riches.

Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) British painter, critic
“Discourse Eleven” (10 Dec 1782)

Leonardo da Vinci -- Note-books, 1 [tr. McCurdy (1908)]

Dave — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:49:42 +0000

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian artist, engineer, scientist, polymath
Note-books, 1 [tr. McCurdy (1908)]

Bacon, Francis -- “Of Studies,” Essays, No. 50 (1625)

Dave — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:51:01 +0000

Studies themselves give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded by experience.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
“Of Studies,” Essays, No. 50 (1625)
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Watterson, Bill -- Calvin and Hobbes (1993-02-11)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

CALVIN: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-02-11)
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