No one could persuade me that it is possible that a man should so surpass others in both judgement and action, unless he has become a learner, a listener, and a discoverer, and has drawn to himself and collected from every possible source those means which will enable him to exercise his own intellectual ability. Isocrates. Ad Dionysium. Section 4.
Image: Fresco from the House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto in Pompeii, 1st century BCE - 1st century CE. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Mentnafunangann.
Comments
Post a Comment