Brit Marling Quotes

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

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

I study for myself, my own games and others.

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 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.

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

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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

I am your original autodidact.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

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

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.