Self-Study Quotes

To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no trace continues endlessly.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.

He that studies his content, wants it.

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

Not all knowledge comes from college.

A lot of times I'm on my own trying to find research material and things like that and trying to educate myself on the world and the film that I'm working on.

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Books are absent teachers.

Let us study our misfortunes and go back to the causes.

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

I like to learn on my own.