Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Always educate yourself.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I may be older but I never stopped studying.

…it is only after our physical and political needs are supplied, and when we are free from necessary duties and cares, that we are in a condition for desiring to see, to hear, and to learn.

The most important thing you can do for yourself is get an education. Learn, listen, and respond. You have to study and practice to get better at your craft and to widen your skill set.

You can teach an old dog new tricks, and this old dog wants to learn.

You can learn at any age and at any moment in your life.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

As you get old, you live and learn.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.