Self-Learning Quotes

Only the autodidacts are free.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

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

There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

I didnt go to film school, i went to films

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

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.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.