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