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