Jisc

We're a membership organisation, providing digital solutions for UK education and research

Jisc

Jisc is the UK higher, further education and skills sectors’ not-for-profit organisation for digital services and solutions. We operate shared digital infrastructure and services, negotiate sector-wide deals with IT vendors and commercial publishers, and provide trusted advice and practical assistance for universities, colleges and learning providers.

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"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

Aristotle

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle

"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."

Albert Einstein

"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."

Paulo Coelho

"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."

Benjamin Franklin

"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."

Richard Branson

"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."

Dizzy Gillespie

"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."

Albert Einstein

"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."

Sophocles

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

W.B. Yeats

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

Brian Herbert

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."

Anton Chekhov

"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."

Eartha Kitt

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

Confucius

"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."

John Dewey

"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"

Princess Ramirez

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."

Marvin Minsky

"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

Jimi Hendrix

"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."

Will Durant

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

Allan Bloom

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."

B.B. King

"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

Malcolm Forbes

"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."

Sarah Caldwell

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

Chinese Proverb

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Benjamin Franklin

"Much to learn, you still have."

Yoda

"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."

Chinese Proverb

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

Socrates

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

Pablo Picasso

"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."

Rudyard Kipling

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Isaac Asimov

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

Leonardo da Vinci

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

Confucius

"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."

George Whitman

"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."

Brian Tracey

"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

"I am still learning."

Michelangelo, age 87

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."

Johann Sebastian Bach

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

Leonardo da Vinci

"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."

Phil Collins

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."

Plutarch

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

Henry Ford

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

Oscar Wilde

"Light up the darkness."

Bob Marley

"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."

Oprah Winfrey