In-Depth Study Quotes

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

To properly investigate a subject, we must investigate a subject's stuff.

The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least an alternative viewpoint-to previous accounts....Donovan combines that vital blend of authoritative scholarship with the vivid writing necessary to make an oft-told tale seem fresh.

Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered an original and highly personal way to make herself an inhabitant both of the book and of George Eliot's imaginary city. Though I have read and taught the book these many years I find myself desiring to go back to it after reading Rebecca Mead's work.

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by 20 books he has merely skimmed.

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there.

I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.

Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.