#studious

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#distinguishing #ignorance #kind #learning #studious

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. ↗

— William Penn

#how #know #learning #live #moderns

Where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees. ↗

— Christopher Anstey

#ease #i #lost #seven #studious

I was very studious. ↗

— Kesha

#studious #very

I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#boring #doing #fun #i #interesting

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. ↗

— Nat Turner

#avoided #devoting #discovered #fasting #great

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#avoided #been #characteristic #giving #his

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. ↗

— Eva Green

#blushing #class #every #every time #go

My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#avenue #back #brought #came #father

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. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#dead #i #i am #interest #least