I am still learning. (at age 87)
Interpretation
Lifelong learning is essential, regardless of age.
This quote by Michelangelo emphasizes that the pursuit of knowledge and personal growth does not stop with age or achievement. Even at 87, he acknowledges that there is always more to learn, highlighting the importance of humility and continuous self-improvement throughout one's life.
In practice
In a speech about lifelong learning to motivate seniors.
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.
Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
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