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