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"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"Light up the darkness."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"I am still learning."