Philippe Petit Quotes

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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.

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

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

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

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

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

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

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.

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

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

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

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

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.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

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

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

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

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

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.