Ludwig von Mises Quotes

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.

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

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

I am self-educated from genre books.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

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

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.

The big characters who occupy science, especially modern science, are all "off" in fundamental ways. I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think. I wanted to pay tribute to that mind.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

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

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Don't be anybody's follower, be a student.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Genius appeals to the future.