Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• They condemn what they do not understand.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Latin, Understanding, Criticism

• I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Happiness, Men, Order

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1927). “Tusculan Disputations”

• 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.

• . . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Journey, Men

• We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Understanding, Enjoy

• Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Reading, Night, Thinking

• No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Understanding, Speak

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