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