University of East London - Sustainability Research Institute
Sustainability Research Institute
University of East London - Sustainability Research Institute
Established in 2001, the SRI was one of the first dedicated sustainability research institutes in the UK and we have since built an excellent international reputation by applying our ground breaking research and development in the real world.
University of East London - Sustainability Research InstituteRoyal Docks Centre for SustainabilityUEL Docklands Campus, 4-6 University WayLondonE16 2RDUnited Kingdom Get
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"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
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"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Light up the darkness."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"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."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
