“Nothing is more stimulating for self-education than working in a new area.”

“When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives, and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education.”

James McCosh (1811–1894) British philosopher

“Nothing more than education advances the prosperity, the power, and the happiness of a nation. ”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”

George Sand Indiana

“Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.”

Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher

“Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

“Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.”

José Saramago book The Cave

“More high-reaching, subtle, many-sided, curious and profound than the Greek, more noble and humane than the Roman, more large and spiritual than the old Egyptian, more vast and original than any other Asiatic civilization, more intellectual than the European prior to the 18th century, possessing all that these had and more, it was the most powerful, self-possessed, stimulating and wide in influence of all past human cultures.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet

“I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist