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Quintilian Quotes
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Type: Educator Quotes Category: Quotes Year of Birth: 35 Year of Death: 95 Nationality: Roman Find on Amazon: Quintilian Related Authors: Leon Kass Michael Pollan Leland Stanford Seth Lloyd Temple Grandin Miguel de Unamuno Paul Farmer Stephen Cohen |
A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. Quintilian Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. Quintilian For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set. Quintilian It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. Quintilian It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. Quintilian It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. Quintilian Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. Quintilian The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. Quintilian Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. Quintilian To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. Quintilian Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. Quintilian When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. Quintilian When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. Quintilian Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. Quintilian |
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