Top 1200 Self-Taught Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

Although I have a lot of close female friends in my life, my number one is still my mom. Without her, I wouldn't have the values that I have and see the world the way that I do today. She taught me how to appreciate and respect women. She taught me chivalry and how to love a woman and respect their feelings and emotions.

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico. We actually hung out with them last summer, and it was awesome. But I wish my grandfather had taught my dad Spanish when he was younger so he could've taught me when I was younger, and sometimes he does, too. It's a shame.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Kangana has started believing in her own myth. She says she taught feminism to the film industry, she taught it nationalism. I'm glad she spelled that out because nobody else had noticed! I think she fears the day when she will no longer be in the headlines and so has to keep making outrageous statements to stay in the news.

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

Look, I was taught, and I taught my children, if they ever came back from school saying 'Oh, so and so's father's got a helicopter, it's not fair,' I'd say, 'Fair? Whoever said life had to be fair? Is it fair that you live in Kensington Palace? That you've each got a pony? There are an awful lot of kids without a pony, you know.'

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Bodybuilding has been the tool that single-handedly taught a little black boy from the projects to use his mind to achieve success. it taught me to see things for what they can be. I had 17-inch arms; I imagined them to be 24 inches. The power of my mind allowed me to achieve what I imagined.

Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

I woke up this morning and I said to my self, 'Self, I think we need to party today'.

You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.