Quotes By Quintilian

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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

A liar should have a good memory.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

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

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

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