Quintilian Quotes
Top 75 wise famous quotes and sayings by Quintilian
Quintilian Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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.
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.