Oscar Wilde Quotes

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

I've never stopped learning.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.