Jim Rohn Quotes

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Don’t believe everything the professors tell you. Get your own information on your own terms.

I just was raised always to question and be as informed as I can be.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

Always educate yourself.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Take advantage of educating yourself.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.