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