Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

• The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

• In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Wish, Atheism

• If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Teacher, Letters

• History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Memories, Light

  "On the Orator". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC.

• 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.

• Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Fear, Teaching

  "Philippicae (Philippics)". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 36), 44-43 BC.

• History is the teacher of life

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher

• It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Citizens, Duty

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1364, Delphi Classics

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