Abbi Jacobson Quotes

I don't necessarily want a higher education, I want a wider education. I want to know everything and experience everything.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I may be older but I never stopped studying.

I needed to go to college. I needed to mature.

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.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

Always educate yourself.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Take advantage of educating yourself.

I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.

Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

I grow old learning something new every day.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.