Roger Ascham
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.Collection: Learning
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.Collection: Experience
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.Collection: Experience
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.Collection: Education
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.Collection: Men
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.Collection: Children
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.Collection: Writing
Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.Collection: Men
He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.Collection: Wise
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.Collection: Skills
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.Collection: Children
Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.Collection: Medicine
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.Collection: Wise
A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.Collection: Men
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.Collection: Writing
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.Collection: World
For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.Collection: Light
Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof.... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.Collection: Hurt
It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.Collection: Real
A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.Collection: Memories
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.Collection: Wise
Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.Collection: Learning
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.Collection: Wise
I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.Collection: Education