Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Roger Ascham's Popular Quotes

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

- Roger Ascham

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

- Roger Ascham

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

- Roger Ascham

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaug…

- Roger Ascham

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

- Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

- Roger Ascham

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

- Roger Ascham

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

- Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

- Roger Ascham