"It is costly wisdom that is bought by…" — Roger Ascham

"It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience."

— Roger Ascham

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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.
He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people…
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully…
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit…
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit…
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

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