Autism & SEND speaker, trainer, consultant, based in the United Kingdom.
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"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."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"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."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into 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."
"Light up the darkness."
"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."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"I am still learning."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"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."