Quintilian Quotes about Giving

All Quintilian Quotes Ambition Art Evil Giving quotes Language Liars Life Memories Opportunity Pleasure Virtue Writing

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

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

Boys, Giving, Imagination

Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.77, Delphi Classics

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

Quintilian

Ambition, Boys, Giving

Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.26