As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
QUINTILIANWhile we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
More Quintilian Quotes
-
-
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
QUINTILIAN -
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIAN -
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
QUINTILIAN -
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN -
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QUINTILIAN -
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QUINTILIAN -
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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 -
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
QUINTILIAN -
Lately we have had many losses.
QUINTILIAN -
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIAN -
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
QUINTILIAN -
She abounds with lucious faults.
QUINTILIAN -
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIAN