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  • 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.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Learning Quotes , Personality Quotes
  • The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Learning Quotes , Past Quotes
  • I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Writing Quotes , Learning Quotes
  • No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : A. Ray Olpin Quotes , Learning Quotes , Thinking Quotes