Henny Youngman Quotes

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

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.

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

My high school didn't really have a good training program, so I did it on my own.

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

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I am your original autodidact.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

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.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.