Quotes About Autodidact

#1. I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

Dean Koontz

#2. I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you.

Stephen Malkmus

#3. Mason was a first-rate spatial voyeur, an autodidact of architectural exteriors.

Geoff Manaugh

#4. 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.

Joe Taslim

#5. I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

#6. The essentially contradictory phrase 'legitimate autodidacticism' is intended to indicate the difference in kind between the highly valued 'extra-curricular' culture of the holder of academic qualifications and the illegitimate extra-curricular culture of the autodidact.

Pierre Bourdieu

#7. If he was indeed an "autodidact," there's no doubt he had the world's shittiest teacher.

Paul Beatty

#8. I am your original autodidact.

Doris Lessing

#9. My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

Kate Atkinson

#10. I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.

Anthony Hopkins

#11. I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

Agnes Varda

#12. 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

Milan Kundera

#13. The world is divided into three parts of which two parts are meat balls and spaghetti and the other part a huge syphilitic chancre.
(revised, correct quote)

Henry Miller

#14. And then - what? - you graduate from Alice to Frodo to Darth?

Douglas Richards

#15. Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#16. Cause and effect are linked that way in a twisted form. You can pile up all the worlds you like and the twisting will never be undone.

Haruki Murakami

#17. Only the autodidacts are free.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#18. It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

Johnny Depp

#19. In a regular theatre, you'd be kind of moving your eye from one character 5 feet over to the right on the cut. In IMAX, suddenly that's like 20 feet. So I would love to do something. I think I would really want to take the massive screen into consideration so that it would be done properly.

Pete Docter

#20. I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#21. Here, baby. Here's a towel.
She reached back, unable to face the man, and grasped the towel he handed her. Of course, it was a dish towel and not much good.

Shelly Laurenston

#22. The best reformers the world has ever seen
are those who commence on themselves.

George Bernard Shaw

#23. He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

Stephen L. Carter

#24. It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Marguerite Duras

#25. The Old Soul is more inclined to be a lifelong learner, constantly feeding his thirst for insight through his own persistent efforts. His learning has not been forced into him through education or learned out of obligation, but has been absorbed out of curiosity and personal choice.

Aletheia Luna

#26. He's your son. Hear him out before you encourage the ugly gossip.

Meara Platt

#27. For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

Anthony M. Esolen

#28. Pride - Lord of human kind

John Dryden