Milan Kundera Quotes

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

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

I gain a lot of confidence through study.

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 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.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them ut of the grame and dirt.

I was always my own teacher.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.

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.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.