Autodidacts have no boundaries.

“Autodidacts tend to be cranks, obtuse and self-enclosed. A professor’s most important role is to make you think with rigor: precisely, patiently, responsibly, remorselessly,…

— William Deresiewicz

Only the autodidacts are free,

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.

— Anthony Doerr

He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would…

— John Derbyshire

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…

— Alan Moore

“In school, you get a paid education. In nature, you get a free education.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what…

— Anthony Esolen

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

— Dean Koontz

“Now it is true that I could have learned without a teacher, but it would have been risky for me, because of my natural…

— Mark Twain

“When you're picking a project to pursue, try not to think of it as some massive commitment. Can you think of it as an…

— Emilie Wapnick

I am your original autodidact.

— Doris Lessing

“This book is for the people who don't want to pick a single focus and abandon all their other interests. It's for the curious,…

— Emilie Wapnick

“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay has worked.…

— Brian Koppelman

“You don't have to choose one thing.”

— Emilie Wapnick

I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries…

— Zachary Quinto