Mary Wesley Quotes

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

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

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

I am your original autodidact.

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

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.

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.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

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

Many people who excel are self-taught.

I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

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.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.

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

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.