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