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