Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly.

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

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason

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

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

He that cannot reason is a fool.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

People are not stupid.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

You don't get old being stupid.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.