Study Methods Quotes

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

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

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.

This isn't higher education studying itself.

In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.

I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past.

My mum was methodical in making sure we did our homework perfectly. She would do outlines to help us. When we were younger, she used flash cards.

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.