Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

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.

I like to learn on my own.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

I was always my own teacher.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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

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

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

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

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 discover a lot of things on my own.

The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.

It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself. And that can be done at any level.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.

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.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

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