Agnes Repplier Quotes

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

Whilst, alas, upon such times are we fallen that a learned man seems well-nigh a portent, and erudition in a woman is a thing utterly unknown.

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.

Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.