Top 100 Study Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

52. “When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

53. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

54. “To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.”

— Richard P. Feynman

55. “Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

56. “Never settle for anything less than your best.”

— Brian Tracy

57. “Chance favors the prepared mind.”

— Louis Pasteur

58. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”

— B. B. King

59. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

— Confucius

60. “The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.”

— H. G. Wells

61. “Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.”

— Jim Rohn

62. “Life is a classroom. Only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.”

— Zig Ziglar

63. “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”

— Louis Pasteur

64. “Education is freedom.”

— Paulo Freire

65. “If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.”

— Earl Nightingale

66. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

— John Dewey

67. “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

68. “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

— Isaac Asimov

69. “He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

— Confucius

70. “You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”

— Marvin Minsky

71. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.”

— Jim Rohn

72. “The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.”

— Charlie Munger

73. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

— Abigail Adams

74. “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

— Malala Yousafzai

75. “Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.”

— Robert Greene

76. “Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.”

— Horace

77. “Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.”

— Brian Tracy

78. “Consistency is the DNA of mastery.”

— Robin S. Sharma

79. “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”

— Maya Angelou

80. “To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

— Confucius

81. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

— Frederick Douglass

82. “If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.”

— Thomas S. Monson

83. “No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

84. “The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

85. “Success is a refined study of the obvious.”

— Jim Rohn

86. “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.”

— Richard Dawkins

87. “A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.”

— Mary Shelley

88. “Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.”

— Francis Bacon

89. “In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

90. “If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.”

— Albert Schweitzer

91. “Satanism demands study, not worship!”

— Anton Szandor LaVey

92. “One can never study nature too much and too hard.”

— Vincent van Gogh

93. “History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”

— W.H. Auden

94. “Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.”

— Annie Jump Cannon

95. “To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!”

— Victor Hugo

96. “A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: “You will die before you can do anything else”.”

— John Muir

97. “Massage is the study of anatomy in braille.”

— Jack Meagher

98. “When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don’t turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.”

— Albert Hofmann

99. “The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.”

— Thomas Paine

100. “Budo is simply the study of the best ways to kill.”

— Masaaki Hatsumi