Barack Obama
Politician
"You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you."
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Jean Piaget
Psychologist, Philosopher
"Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely."
Jean Piaget
Psychologist, Philosopher
"Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself."
Paulo Freire
Educator, Author
"Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Writer, Aviator
"Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach."
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"Teach by teaching, not by correcting"
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"What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it."
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"Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure."
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"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
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"The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it"
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"This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly."
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"You can't teach the old maestro a new tune."
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"To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge."
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"All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best."
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"Learn from the masses, and then teach them."
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"He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense."
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"The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is."
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"Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again."
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"Learning many things does not teach understanding"
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"I need the sea because it teaches me"
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"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."
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"Nobody can teach me who I am."
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"You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out."
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"Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are."
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"The rock still has something to teach me."
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