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