studies quotes

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 humour of a scholar.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

Hethat inhisstudieswhollyapplieshimselftolabourand exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time, and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labour and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.

-'The MasterK'ung' Confucius or K'ung Fu-tse
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

-John Dryden
  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.

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

-Leonardo daVinci
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translated by Edward MacCurdy,1938), vol.1, pt.1.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

-John Milton
  The Reason of Church Government, bk.2, introduction, 'Plans and Projects'.