Quintilian Quotes

"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
(Related: Effort, Faults, Mind, Worth)

"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
- Quintilian
(Related: Defeat, Yield)

"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
- Quintilian
(Related: Hope, Yield)

"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."
- Quintilian
(Related: Satire)

"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."
- Quintilian
(Related: Ambition, Cause, Vice)

"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."
- Quintilian
(Related: Nature, Effect)

"Without natural gifts technical rules are useless."
- Quintilian
(Related: Gifts, Rules)

"It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate."
- Quintilian
(Related: First, Will, Words)

"It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing."
- Quintilian

"For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set."
- Quintilian
(Related: Mind)

"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
(Related: Work, Talent, Agriculture, Profit, Will)

"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
(Related: Fathers, Parents)

"A liar should have a good memory."
- Quintilian
(Related: Memory)

"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
(Related: Character, Virtue, Contemplation, Mind, Multiplicity, Variety, Vice)