"[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and……" — Plato

"[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found...."

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We cannot learn men from books. — Benjamin Disraeli
You can live and learn, but you cannot learn to live. So just live. — A J McLean
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not. — Oswald Spengler
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You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure. — Marcus Buckingham

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