What did Quintilian mean by: While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost. - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain Copy
+ Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Grows, Procrastination, Too Late, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Pride, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Quintilian, Brilliant, Excellent, Faults, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set. Feraz Zeid, June 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Mind, Teach, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. Feraz Zeid, June 27, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Perfection, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ Usage is the best language teacher. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 24, 2023, Quintilian, Language, Teacher, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Easier, Variety, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ Conscience is a thousand witnesses. Feraz Zeid, June 30, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Conscience, Witness, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
