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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

— Immanuel Kant

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

— Mark Twain

Learning never exhausts the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

— Confucius

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

— Charles Dickens

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

— Alexander Pope

Much learning does not teach understanding.

— Heraclitus

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

— Oscar Wilde

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

— Winston Churchill

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

— Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

— Albert Einstein

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Socrates

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

— Aristotle

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

— Benjamin Franklin

From one learn all.

— Virgil

He who does not know foreign languages does not know his own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.

— William Wordsworth

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

— Albert Einstein

We learn more from the winds of adversity than from the smooth seas of prosperity.

— Seneca

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

— Samuel Johnson

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner first.

— Søren Kierkegaard

No man was ever wise by chance.

— Seneca

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