Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Ignorance, Political

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Brutus”, Loeb Classical Library

• Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ignorance, Men, Perplexed

  "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the ends of good and evil)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I: Liber Primus, Chapter 13), 45 BC.

• In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ignorance, Astonishment, Causes

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.220, London : H.G. Bohn

• No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ignorance, Men, Gains

• I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Teacher, Ignorance

  "Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book I. 25. 60, c. 45 BC.

• It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Nature, Mistake, Philosophical

• Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ignorance, Evil, Approach

• Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ignorance, Matter, Ashamed

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