Agnes Repplier Quotes about Learning

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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Agnes Repplier

Teaching, Learning, Busy

Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

Agnes Repplier

Knowledge, Learning, Charming

Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Agnes Repplier

Learning, Personality, Twenties

Agnes Repplier Quotes about Learning

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