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Quintilian

" Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. "

Ambition , Vice , Cause

related quotes

" To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. "

Imagination , Mind , Promise

" 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. "

Mind , worth , Effort , Faults

" When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. "

Defeat

" When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. "

Hope

" Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. "

Satire

" Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. "

Ambition , Vice , Cause

" Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. "

Nature

" Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. "

Gifts , Rules

" It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. "

Will , First

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

Try

" For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set. "

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. "

Will , Work , Talent , Agriculture , Profit

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