We are one of the largest integrated care providers in England. Our 7,000 staff serve a population of around 650,000 people. We provide healthcare services across County Durham and Darlington.
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"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."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Light up the darkness."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"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."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"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."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"I am still learning."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"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."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."