Quintilian Quotes
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Quintilian
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Author Details:
Type:
Educator Quotes
Category:
Quotes
Year of Birth:
35
Year of Death:
95
Nationality:
Roman
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Booker T. Washington
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Select Quintilian Quotations:
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Quintilian
A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian
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Quote Keywords:
Advance,
Boy,
Critical,
Develops,
Faculty,
Gives,
Imagination,
Least,
Mind,
Promise,
Whom
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Dictionary Links:
Advance,
Boy,
Critical,
Faculty,
Gives,
Imagination,
Least,
Mind,
Promise,
Whom
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All Quintilian Quotations:
A liar should have a good memory.
As regards parents, I should like...
Consequently the student who is devoid...
For the mind is all the...
It is much easier to try...
It is the nurse that the...
It is worth while too to...
Nature herself has never attempted to...
The mind is exercised by the...
Though ambition itself be a vice...
To my mind the boy who...
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
When defeat is inevitable, it is...
When we cannot hope to win...
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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