Quotes About Self-study

Life's every moment, hour and day is important. So, man must use it purposefully. For this, it is necessary that everyday he does self-study of a ved mantra, half a shloka, shlokansh or a word. If for any reason he is unable to do so, then he must donate. If it is not possible to donate, then he should perform an act of kindness or do a good deed during the day. People, who do not follow this, are wasting every moment of their life.

It is said to be the age of the first person singular

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

Study everything, but study yourself first.

If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

I am worth some study, if for no one else but myself. I hope that you feel likewise... even if only about yourself.

The proper study of Mankind is Man

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

primarily the individual is going to study at home.

I love 'Teach Yourself' books. I bought an old weaving loom and had no time for classes, but one 'Teach Yourself' later, and my bobbin is flying.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

But finally, you're not studying Buddhism. You're studying you.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

I never saw the necessity to attend all those classes, so many days a week, or purchase unreadable texts when so much fiction and poetry waited in the bookstore.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Self-study represents a profound paradigm shift. It is the moment in our journey when we let go of results and wholeheartedly embrace the process. Once we shift our focus from the results to the process itself, all situations become opportunities. We are present and can welcome all things.

That baby has got to learn things including remaining erect & on deck & all, her study of herself must include no wings. She's sturdy, beautiful, & she will do, unless the universal homage turns her head as it might well do mine, hypnotized by the Little Baby...

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was What's your alma mater? I told him, Books. You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

But I'll not throw away good knowledge on people who think they can get it by the sixpenn'orth, and carry it away with 'em as they would an ounce of snuff. So never come to me again, if you can't show that you've been working with your own heads, instead of thinking that you can pay for mine to work for you. That's the last word I've got to say to you.

Comme tout le monde, je n'ai à mon service que trois moyens d'évaluer l'existence humaine: l'étude de soi, la plus difficile et la plus dangereuse, mais aussi la plus féconde des méthodes; l'observation des hommes, qui s'arrangent le plus souvent pour nous cacher leurs secrets ou pour nous faire croire qu'ils en ont; les livres, avec les erreurs particulières de perspective qui naissent entre leurs lignes.