He that would be conformed to Christ’s image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what.

Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again

In more than 20 years I’ve spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father’s footsteps.

Young men, of course, don’t want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: ‘Use your common sense rather than book instructions.’

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals”  and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.