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

Pablo Picasso

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

John Dewey

"I am still learning."

Michelangelo, age 87

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

W.B. Yeats

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Anton Chekhov

"Much to learn, you still have."

Yoda

"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

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Aristotle

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

Oscar Wilde

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

Will Durant

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

Albert Einstein

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

Confucius

"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

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Socrates

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

Jimi Hendrix

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Sophocles

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Brian Tracey

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

B.B. King

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

Allan Bloom

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

Confucius

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

Richard Branson

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

Marvin Minsky

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Mahatma Gandhi

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

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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

George Whitman

"Light up the darkness."

Bob Marley

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

Will Durant

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

Eartha Kitt

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

Aristotle

"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

"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

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

Phil Collins

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

Brian Herbert

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Dizzy Gillespie

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Paulo Coelho

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

Albert Einstein

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Benjamin Franklin