If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.

Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.

When night hath set her silver lamp high,
Then is the time for study.

When night hath set her silver lamp high,
Then is the time for study.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself read more

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.

Exhausting thought,
And having wisdom with each studious year.

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

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

Me therefore studious of laborious ease.

Me therefore studious of laborious ease.

So study evermore is overshot.
While it doth study to have what it would,
It doth forget read more

So study evermore is overshot.
While it doth study to have what it would,
It doth forget to do the thing it should;
And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost.

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently