"While we are examining into everything we sometimes……" — Quintilian
"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it."
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76 Quotes by Quintilian
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely…
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what…
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify…
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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More Examining Quotes
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there…
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I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they…
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If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service…
— Roger Babson
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In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton,"…
— Kenneth Grahame
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Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what…
— Glenn Close
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Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles,…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but…
— Paul Dirac
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It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
— Dan Millman
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It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms…
— Johannes Kepler
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