Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

The highest priority you can have is education.

Education is our passport to the future.

Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I think you never stop learning.

You learn from everything.

The value of a good education has never left me.

Always educate yourself.

Take advantage of educating yourself.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.