Quotes with self-education

Quotes 521 till 540 of 1070.

  • Aldous Huxley Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Plato Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Antonia Fraser My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Bob Ehrlich My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Baz Luhrmann My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alain de Botton My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Barry Larkin My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • George Washington My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Baruj Benacerraf My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Orwell Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Eric Hoffer Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Eric Hoffer Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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