Sophie Dahl Quotes

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

I just want to be educated.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

I definitely want to continue being an actress. I love it. The reason I'm going to college is because I do want knowledge in another field. College isn't the college experience for me. I'm not going to be in a sorority. I'm not going to network. I'm not even really going to make my lifelong friends.

Here's the thing: I consider myself pretty well - for somebody that didn't go to high school, pretty well educated.

I'll always be a student. I learn by doing.

As students, it's important that irrespective of whatever you are doing, you educate yourself, as that gives you certain standing in public.

My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.