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