When you stop growing you start dying.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
I wouldn't be who I am and where I am today if it wasn't for years of education.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
You may leave school, but it never leaves you.
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.
Every day I look for ways to be inspired, to learn and to grow. And trying to be the best for my kids, my husband and my family. One thing I really wanna do is being there for my kids, be part of my siblings and my parents.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
I always say, 'Don't retire - inspire.'
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.
I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.
Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.
The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills for better lives.
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.
