H. L. Mencken Quotes

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.

I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

When I got to Oak Hill, I got a chance to learn. I learned a lot about myself, basketball and about school. If would have stayed in Texas, I probably wouldn't have graduated.

New York taught me everything.

Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

Here's the thing: I consider myself pretty well - for somebody that didn't go to high school, pretty well educated.

I didn't make the most of school, but boxing has given me discipline.

I didn't go to high school, I didn't go to college, I didn't have women's studies. All of my feminist ideals and education have been built around art and my friends and community. And so it's still growing.

I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

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.

In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.