Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Justice

• I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Knowledge, Knowing Who You Are

• Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Knowledge, Born

• Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Knowledge, Understanding

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter XXXIV), 55 BC.

• Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Teaching, Knowledge

  "De Legibus (On the Laws)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 19), circa 52 BC.

• Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Knowledge, Men, Difficult

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 9), 55 BC.

• Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Knowledge, Science

• There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Knowledge, Mean, Sea

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