Quintilian quotes
Quintilian was a Roman rhetorician and educator, renowned for his influential work on rhetoric, Institutio Oratoria. His teachings emphasized the importance of moral character in effective oratory. He greatly influenced educational theory and the study of rhetoric in Western tradition. Here are 68 of his quotes:
It is a complaint without foundation that "to very few people is granted the faculty of comprehending what is imparted to them, and that most, through dullness of understanding, lose their labor and their time." On the contrary, you will find the greater number of men both ready in conceiving and quick in learning, since such quickness is natural to man. As birds are born to fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to show fierceness, so to us peculiarly belong activity and sagacity of understanding.
Quintilian
I do not merely assert that the ideal orator should be a good man, but I affirm that no man can be an orator unless he is a good man. For it is impossible to regard those men as gifted with intelligence who on being offered the choice between the two paths of virtue and of vice choose the latter, nor can we allow them prudence, when by the unforeseen issue of their own actions they render themselves liable not merely to the heaviest penalties of the laws, but to the inevitable torment of an evil conscience.
Quintilian
Quintilian
Occupation: Roman Educator
Born: 35
Died: 96
Quotes count: 68
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