Self Taught Quotes

“We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows

“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”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“One of the best examples of a polymath is Leonardo da Vinci. Born in Italy in 1452, Leonardo was a sculptor, painter, architect, mathematician, musician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, botanist, geologist, cartographer and writer. Although he received an informal education that included geometry, Latin and mathematics, he was essentially an autodidact, or a self-taught individual.”
― James Morcan, Genius Intelligence

“When I quit my university, people in my neighborhood quite literally began to gossip about me being insane, while others pitied me as a lost soul. But mark this my friend, it's the lost souls that lay the foundation for a better tomorrow, because those beings are not afraid to be lost, they are not afraid to fail, in the pursuit of something greater, something grander, than to just survive no different than the dogs do on the streets.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.”
― Unarine Ramaru

“There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.”
― Christopher Langan

“A self-taught person looks at the big picture with an open mind, they explore everything. They investigate themselves uncovering what is no longer taught, and experience supports it”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Competition does not drive me. I do things better for pleasure and without trying. I mistakenly studied difficult subjects that were no use to me when I might have studied the arts for pleasure, which would have smoothed my path. I wasted time trying to be good at math. I taught myself the things that mattered to me most: to write and to take pictures.”
― Édouard Levé, Autoportrait

“I'm not self-taught; God taught me everything I know.”
― Marion Bekoe

“Educational personal experiences are seldom the result of efficient enterprises and pleasant occurrences. Personal growth does not entail doing what we find easy or financially profitable. What defines us is not exclusively our natural talent, but also our willingness to go outside ourselves to scramble, discern, locate, and acquire what is heretofore missing in our lives. A person who dares tread the ground that they most fear is an intrepid explorer regardless of the final economic result attained.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Mother Nature is a self-taught engineer.”
― Stewart Stafford

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

“In school, you get a paid education.
In nature, you get a free education.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“He taught himself all that he knew; he made himself what he was.”
― MARY A. HAMILTON, The story of Abraham Lincoln