“On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
“He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.”
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 343
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Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BCRelated quotes
“First delight, then instruct.”
Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835) German (Prussian) philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the University of Berlin
Erst erfreuen, dann belehren.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Gustav Friedrich Waagen in "On the Purpose of the Berlin Gallery" [Über die Aufgabe der Berliner Galerie] (1828); occasionally attributed to von Humboldt, who had quoted Schinkel and Waagen in a report.
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
La satire, en leçons, en nouveautés fertile,
Sait seule assaisonner le plaisant et l'utile,
Et, d'un vers qu'elle épure aux rayons du bons sens,
Détromper les esprits des erreurs de leur temps.
Satire 9
Satires (1716)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1850s, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859)
Yehuda Ashlag (1886–1954) Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist
Introduction to the Book of Zohar, in Introduction to the Book of Zohar: Volume Two, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2005, p. 119.
Introduction to the Book of Zohar
“First delight, then instruct (original German: ).”
Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1794–1868) German art historian
From an 1828 proposal "On the Purpose of the Berlin Gallery" (
This quotation is occasionally attributed to Wilhelm von Humboldt, which appears to be erroneous; von Humboldt had quoted Schinkel and Waagen in a report.
