The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few…

— Peter Ackroyd

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

— Diogenes

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

— Francis Spufford

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.

— Erno Paasilinna

“In a world lost in the darkness of ignorance, deception and confusion, a self-educated human being with integrity is the Light.”

— Gavin Nascimento

In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker.

— Stanley Williams

I am self-educated from genre books.

— Charlaine Harris

“Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.”

— Ross Macdonald

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

— Lizz Winstead

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Whether one is formally educated or self educated; the cornerstone of success is education.”

— Will Foster

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

— Dean Koontz

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

— John Banville

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

— Anonymous

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

— Jim Jarmusch