Quotes with self-taught

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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Assata Shakur We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 167
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Abraham H. Maslow What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 93.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Mark Twain What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Anita Brookner What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Epictetus What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bell Hooks What nationalist educators often fail to recognize is that merely being taught by teachers who are black has not and will not solve the problem if the teachers have been socialized to internalize racist thinking. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Brian Tracy Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carolyn Murphy When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Anita Desai When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Ben Okri When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Burning Spear When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jacob Boehme When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.
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  • Abdullah Ibrahim When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
    South African pianist and composer (1934 - )
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