Marcus Tullius Cicero Education Quotes

#1. When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. When you're faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and there are a lots of things you want to do.

Stephen Hawking

#3. Seeking is not always the way to find.

Augustus William Hare

#4. In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. Must do like one who, being poor, comes last to the fair, and can find no other way of providing himself than by taking all the things already seen by other buyers, and not taken but refused by reason of their lesser value.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#6. Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. Greatness is the courage to overcome obstacles.

David R. Hawkins

#8. "What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

Angelina Jolie

#10. The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.

Billy Taylor

#11. What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Marcus Tullius Cicero