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