Quotes About Autodidact

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

Ik krijg niet de indruk dat de Autodidact zin heeft om te praten. Wat kijkt hij me vreemd aan: hij kijkt niet om iets te zien, maar om een soort zielsgemeenschap tot stand te brengen. De ziel van de Autodidact is omhooggestegen en in in zijn fraaie, nietsziende ogen aan de oppervlakte gekomen. Hij wil dat mijn ziel hetzelfde doet, dat ze haar neus tegen de ruiten zal drukken: dan kunnen onze zielen beleefdheden uitwisselen.

Even more valuable, I learned at an early age to teach myself.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

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

I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well.

I've always been my own teacher," I said soberly. "And I must confess I've always been my favorite pupil as well.

I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It's a great thing to work through problems on your own.

I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

Memories haunt. So do fears that you don't know half the things you are supposed to know since your name now sits on the jackets of some books. I had come to books in autodidact fashion, with a handful of workshops tossed in. What course could I teach? What were to be the rules? From what hollow in what bone was I to extract the necessary charm, the more necessary authority? I had no mystique and no defense against my own uncertainty and yet months of indecision melted into yes.

I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one.

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

And when I think of my few acquisitions, I have to admit how fiercely the autodidact struggles for her education, and how incomplete that education remains. How illusory is any accumulation of knowledge!

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

Carlyle's axiom that the true university of these days is a good collection of books has remained valid as far as I'm concerned, and even today I am convinced that one can become an excellent philosopher, historian, philologist, lawyer, or what will you, without having attended a university or even a Gymnasium.

He was an autodidact, and he believed his mind could read the motives and spirit behind any invention. He had immediately invented the pocket shirt, which allowed fuzes and gadgets to be stored easily by a working sapper.

I never had a mentor. I was forced to make myself up as i went along.

All really educated men," he would soon write, "whether they have studied in the halls of a University, or in a cottage or a work-shop, are essentially self-educated.

Though most students in those days read with an accomplished attorney in his office, Lincoln taught himself entirely on his own.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

O que distingue o autodidata daquele que estudou não é a extensão dos conhecimentos, mas os diferentes graus de vitalidade e de confiança em si.