Quotes with self-education

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  • Joseph Addison True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • E. M. Cioran A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barack Obama A woman who is denied an education is denied equality.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Aristotle All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Camille Paglia American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Anatole France An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Socrates An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Anatole France An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Alan Thicke As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Brendan Francis At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Charles Kingsley Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Alexander McQueen British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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  • Frank Moore Colby By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Ann Landers Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Edward Everett Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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  • Bob Beauprez Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
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