Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

I gain a lot of confidence through study.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

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.

If you seek learning, it meets you somewhere down the road.

I wouldn't be who I am and where I am today if it wasn't for years of education.

No amount of learning goes to waste. It adds to building your skill set and intellect.