Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I think you can learn from history.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

To be ignorant of what occurred before you is to always remain a child.

Without history one remains always a child.

We learn from history. That's what it's all about.

History is my biggest teacher.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

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

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The older you get, the more you learn.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

All experience is good experience.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.