"By experience we find out a short way…" — Roger Ascham
"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."
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18 Quotes by Roger Ascham
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Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
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He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people…
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
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As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
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Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully…
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Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit…
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Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit…
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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
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It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.
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The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
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In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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