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