Self Study Quotes

“Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Self-education is lifelong curiosity.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you study the wrongs you have committed before you study the wrongs done to you, you have no choice but to label yourself inherently evil, and be forced to dissociate emotionally to avoid the horrible pain in this lie.”
― Daniel Mackler, Toward truth: A psychological guide to enlightenment

“We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The world of books is the only paradise there is.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Experience is the teacher of true education.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A person can draw from three resources to understand and evaluate human existence: study of self, observation of other people, and reading books. Self-study is the most difficult learning methodology and it is rife with dangerous pretentions, but also the most fruitful. Studying other people is infinitely fallible because of our inability to establish an unbiased perspective and the subjects’ propensity to hide their secret thoughts, which obscures our vision. Book reading is a laborious process and even diligent reading can lead to faculty perception due to writers’ agenda to persuade us instead of merely conveying information. Nevertheless, by incorporating all three learning methodologies into a regime of studious reflection I might learn about the world, other inhabitants, and the self, and use such knowledge to cleave a fitting personal place in the world.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The slow coercion of hypocrisy, of traditions in our culture that have a levelling effect - these things change us. We crave excitement, hair-raising stories, sensation. We search for situations that create superficial fear to cover up inner anxieties. We like to escape into the irrational because we dislike the challence of self-study and self-thinking.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“Learn all you can.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Learn your topic through self-study through scrupulous analysis and learn about your goal”
― Sunday Adelaja

“What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Whether we’re eating or working or meditating or listening or talking, the reason that we’re here in this world at all is to study ourselves. In fact, it has been said that studying ourselves provides all the books we need.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“All life is a passing show. If we want to hold it, even for a minute, we feel tension. Nature will try to run away; we will try to pull it back and keep it. When we want to keep it, we put up barriers which ultimately cause us pain.”
― Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

“Never, never settle for these little things. Our goal is something very high. It is eternal peace, eternal joy. Don't settle for a little peace, for a little joy, for petty happiness.”
― Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

“I seek to find, so I search.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“With self discipline, self study is possible.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Reading renew the mind.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Selles voodis oleksime unustanud oma elu, oleksime jõudnud mäletamise äärmise piirini; me kehad oleksid ühte sulanud, justnagu kujud vahakujude muuseumis on sulatatud ühte nende ajalooga, nii oleksime meie lagunenud armastuseks.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“my books won't take me far
into this place”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country

“Each of us must use self-scrutiny in order to ascertain how to immerse ourselves into prevailing culture and develop personals skills and survival mechanisms in order to cope with all the paradoxes and complications of a chaotic world. We cannot gauge the equipoise of our emotional health by examining the columns of numbers representing money earned or sums owed on a financial balance sheet. We must periodically take stock of our character assets and personality liabilities. Maintaining a permanency of felicity lodged in our lightsome soul might be the most important asset besides physical genetics that we will ever possess. Unlike our genetic disposition, we are the sole sentinels of our emotional health.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Schoolbooks and formal education does not teach a student how to raise his or her emotional and social intelligence proficiency. A person must resort his or her own devices – their sense of agency and self-esteem – in order to succeed in an increasingly complex world.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“There is no generosity, true acts of goodness, or love without clear-sightedness. I began writing searching for wisdom, questioning from whence it comes. I now repent in dust and ashes. Age-old anxiety weighed heavily on my weakened soul. Sadness and bitter awareness of the futility of living an immoral life forced rigorous self-examination, renunciation of artificial goals and idols. I sought to eradicate a ludicrous egotistic self. I am filled with inscrutable yearning to live a heighted quality of existence that the superior men in history attained by recognizing that their former life was an illusion. In the dead of night, when we speak truths that elude airing in daylight, I torched the castle that housed my solipsistic being that sought fulfillment of its selfish needs. In the second half of existence, I hope to drop attachments, the destructive desires of wanting, and begin a journey seeking intellectual fulfillment of an artistic being. I wish to live in perfect harmony by organizing all that life proffers and conducting personal affairs in a coordinated manner, which the inherent chaos of the world cannot disturb.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A great soul admits its faults and explores its ignorance. We are born oblivious and through a life of study, we become acutely aware of our limitations.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Without the fervor to taste life’s bewitching fruit and in absence of a keenness to gain personal knowledge gained through exploring, probing, surveillance, and self-scrutiny, I risk apathy, befuddlement, and lethargy overwhelming me.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Schools should make ‘common sense’ a course of study.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“The three best friends of a spiritual seeker are self-study, self-control, and selfless service.”
― Mahayogi Buddh Puri

“Self-education can be in a PhD level.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Courage is at the center of all self-study. It is like a torch you can carry into the shadows of the inner world, illuminating what you might have been afraid to see or explore.”
― Marta Mrotek, Meditation Mindsets: 12 Pathways to Inner Peace

“The Integrity Mindset asks you to take personal responsibility for every outcome. You become more “response-able” by refining your alignment with what you believe.”
― Marta Mrotek, Meditation Mindsets: 12 Pathways to Inner Peace