Quotes By 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
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Quintilian
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
Quintilian
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
Quintilian
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Quintilian
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Quintilian