Self-education Quotes

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. (Isaac Asimov)
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. View quote
Jim Rohn
Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner. View quote
Maggie Grace
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing is more stimulating for self-education than working in a new area. View quote
Eric Kandel
It is not my intention to denounce modern education. If it is bad, it may be said that all education is bad which is not self-education, and quite a lot of self-education is going on today - some of it in our schools, under the very noses of the teachers! View quote
Robertson Davies
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life. View quote
Michael Faraday
Traveling is my form of self-education. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. (Ken Livingstone)
Among those points of self-education which take up the form of mental discipline, there is one of great importance, and, moreover, difficult to deal with, because it involves an internal conflict, and equally touches our vanity and our ease. It consists in the tendency to deceive ourselves regarding all we wish for, and the necessity of resistance to these desires. View quote
Michael Faraday