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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only i

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. – Hosea Ballou

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Education commences at the mothers knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. – Hosea Ballou

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The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. – Lord Chesterfield

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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. – Denis Diderot

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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. – William Hazlitt

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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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