The Good Quote
Open menu
Quotes
Authors
Topics
More
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
Home
Authors
Roger Ascham
English
Writer
About the author
Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
#World
Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
#Will
#Learning
#Wit
#Praise
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
#Experience
#Learning
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
#Experience
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
#Experience
#Wisdom
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
#People
#Style
#Men
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
#Time
#Nothing
#End
#Man
#Books
#Reading
#Chivalry
#Fathers
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
#People
#Will
#Man
#Men
#Judgment
#Tongue
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
#Love
#Fear
#Opinion
#Learning
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
#Love
#Children
#Learning
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham,
English
Writer
#Will
#Learning
#Wit
#Praise