Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

The proper study of mankind is books.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

Yeeres know more then bookes.

Years teach us more than books.

Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.