"The least learned, for the most part, have……" — Roger Ascham
"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write."
—
Roger Ascham
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
18 Quotes by Roger Ascham
Roger Ascham has 18 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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.
-
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.
-
A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for…
See all 18 quotes by Roger Ascham »
More Been Quotes
This quote is filed under Been Quotes,
one of 43,316 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
— Aaliyah
-
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
-
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
-
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
— Aristotle
-
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
— Aristotle
-
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
-
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
-
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
See all 43,316 Been Quotes »