Plato Quotes

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 would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

The primary motivation for me is to learn.

I got my high school diploma and a degree from the University of California. But most important, I got myself together and found out who I was and how I could proceed without destroying myself.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

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

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Education is freedom.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

Educate yourself as much as you can with life. Just go out there.