Quotes About Self-taught

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

My playing is all about feel. I'm completely self taught: I never took any lessons or anything.

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I always encourage self-taught before all other methods. Otherwise, we will end up filling our minds with the opinions of others.

The highest virtue lies in self-learning or self-taught education. For it is the path that all the greatest men or those who have decided to go beyond the multitude, have always followed in every generation.

He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for perfection, and treading a path indicated by his own instincts, for reasons unknown, perchance, even to himself. Through some lofty and secret instinct he perceived the presence of a soul in every object.

If he was indeed an "autodidact," there's no doubt he had the world's shittiest teacher.

If he was indeed an "autodidact," there's no doubt he had the world's shittiest teacher.