Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.