Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of…

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

— Susan Orlean

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.

— Ellen DeGeneres

“Don't Write What You Know; Write What You Care About -- Passionately!!”

— Carol Hightshoe

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about…

— Judy Blume

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few…

— Peter Ackroyd

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

— Diogenes

“Whether one is formally educated or self educated; the cornerstone of success is education.”

— Will Foster

In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker.

— Stanley Williams

I am self-educated from genre books.

— Charlaine Harris

“Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.”

— Ross Macdonald

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

— Anonymous

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

— Lizz Winstead

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

— John Banville

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

— Dean Koontz

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham