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