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