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#1

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education

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#2

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: education, libraries, self-education

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#3

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
― Jim Rohn

tags: education, self-improvement

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#4

“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: education, high-school, self-education

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#5

“We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: impressions, judgement, life, opinions, people, self-awareness

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#7

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

tags: inspirational

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#8

“Life is like a game of chess.
To win you have to make a move.
Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT
and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are
acculated along the way.

We become each and every piece within the game called life!”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge

tags: anxiety, art-of-dying, art-of-living, depression, enlightenment, hang-man, know-thyself, knowing, knowing-oneself, knowledge, knowledge-education, knowledge-of-self, knowledge-teaching, love, master, master-key, master-of-love, masters, mastery, mind, mind-body-spirit, mind-power, personal-development, personal-growth, positive-attitude, positive-mindset, positive-motivation, positive-outlook, positive-quotes, positive-thinking, positive-thoughts, power-of-love, power-of-thoughts, power-of-words, powerful-story, quote, sacred, sacred-teachings, sacred-wisdom, sage, sage-advice, self-esteem, self-help-book, self-improvement, self-improvement-book, soul, soul-searching, spirit, spiritual-development, spiritual-growth, spiritual-wisdom, spiritualism, suicidal-thoughts, suicide, teachings, unconditional-acceptance, unconditional-love, wisdom, wise-man

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#9

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
― Helen Keller

tags: educator, inspirational

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#10

“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.”
― John Taylor Gatto

tags: education, education-system, initiative, self-education

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#11

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: education, initiative, self-education

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#12

“Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

tags: educational, inspirational

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#13

“Life is like a sandwich!

Birth as one slice,
and death as the other.
What you put in-between
the slices is up to you.

Is your sandwich tasty or sour?
Allan Rufus.org”
― Allan Rufus

tags: anxiety, art-of-dying, art-of-living, depression, enlightenment, hang-man, know-thyself, knowing, knowing-oneself, knowledge, knowledge-education, knowledge-of-self, knowledge-teaching, love, master, master-key, master-of-love, masters, mastery, mind, mind-body-spirit, mind-power, personal-development, personal-growth, positive-attitude, positive-mindset, positive-motivation, positive-outlook, positive-quotes, positive-thinking, positive-thoughts, power-of-love, power-of-thoughts, power-of-words, powerful-story, quote, sacred, sacred-teachings, sacred-wisdom, sage, sage-advice, self-esteem, self-help-book, self-improvement, self-improvement-book, soul, soul-searching, spirit, spiritual-development, spiritual-growth, spiritual-wisdom, spiritualism, suicidal-thoughts, suicide, teachings, unconditional-acceptance, unconditional-love, wisdom, wise-man

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#14

“When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Volume 2

tags: liberty, political-economy

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#15

“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: brilliance, education, genius, independent, intellect, intelligence, self-education, taught, teaching

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#16

“Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.”
― Charlotte Mason

tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling, learning

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#17

“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no worldly success can compensate for failure in the home.”
― David O. McKay

tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling, learning

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#18

“The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.”
― J. Krishnamurti, Education and the Significance of Life

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#19

“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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#20

“To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.”
― Bell Hooks

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#21

“As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.”
― Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, Geschichte Meines Lebens

tags: education, libertine

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#22

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#23

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#24

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#25

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#26

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

128635 likes

#27

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#28

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#29

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#30

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#31

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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