Quotes About Autodidact

I loved education, which is why I spent as little time as possible in school.

I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you want like that and not have to worry.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

I am self-educated from genre books.

When I would begin to apologize for my spotty education, stating that I often felt that my passionate, haphazard reading has given me some of the faults of the autodidact, he would speak up and praise my "native intelligence." Those were healing words for me to hear...

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

What I learned on my own I still remember.

what I was given to study in school I have forgotten; what I decided to read on my own, I still remember.

There are a lot of advantages to being self-taught. Quality of instruction is not one of them.

Books and I went back. My old man taught me to read at age three-and-a-half. I bloomed into a classic only child/child-of-divorce autodidact.

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

que como aficionados se nos ha negado toda instrucción en ese arte; que lo que sabemos lo hemos aprendido nosotros mismos; y que imprimimos en los ratos libres de una vida que dedicamos a otras cosas.

I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

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

An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.

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

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

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

His education was sketchy, yet he was immensely learned in the oblique and selective way of someone self-taught.

a boy learns better what he teaches himself....

I don't take acting classes - I'm quite an autodidact. I prefer to learn from other actors by watching various movies. Evaluate my acting, spot the flaws and fix them.