Self Taught Quotes

• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

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• Many people who excel are self-taught.

  Herb Ritts

  Self, People, Taught

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• I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

  Fred L. Turner

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Teaching, Men

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• We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

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

  Henny Youngman

  Teacher, Teaching, Men

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• I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

  Sam Palladio

  Self, Trying, Together

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• Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Mom, Biblical, Self

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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

  Ludwig von Mises

  Hard Work, Doctors, Self

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.263, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

  Jack Kirby

  Self, Style, Taught

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• "Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Self, Castles, Answers

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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• I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Teacher, Self, Taught

  Akiane Kramarik (2006). “Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry”, p.38, Thomas Nelson

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

  Adam Jones

  Self, Taught, Classical Music

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• Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

  Hugh Nibley

  Self, Matter, Taught

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• I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.

  Agnes Denes

  School, Self, Taught

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  School, Self, Entrepreneur

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Educational, Learning

  Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: What is man? and other essays”

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• None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Writing

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

  John Constable

  Education, Artist, Self

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• I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!

  Eric Hernandez

  Dad, Self, Age

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• My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

  Mose Allison

  Dad, Player, Self

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. February 04, 2010.

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