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