Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.
Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.
The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.
The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.
Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
I was very studious and square in college.
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.
Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat. , Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior. ]
It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible adults? On the contrary, by limiting welfare, job training, education and nutritious food, won't we plant the seeds for another bumper crop of out-of-wedlock moms, deadbeat dads and worse?
The studious silence of the library. . . Tranquil brightness.
Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.
Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs. Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way.
He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.