The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), English poet

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), English poet

As the turning of logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies will a dull brain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 82), American poet

The love of study, a passion that derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

Edward Gibbon (1737 - 94), English historian

The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the progress he has made at the end of a twelve months.

Edward George Bulwer - Lytton (1803 - 73), English novelist