Quotes About History Cicero

#1. For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]

Adrian Goldsworthy

#2. There are a few things I've learned over the years. One is that time doesn't stop for anyone; hurdling forward and onward, unstoppable and catastrophic.

Shawn Michael Severud

#3. The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.

Ilana Mercer

#4. To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.

Gustave Flaubert

#8. Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she
sings.

D.H. Lawrence

#9. History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.

David Perlmutter

#11. History is the teacher of life

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food. I always need to have a heater at my feet, and I drink this thing called Cool Brew, which I found in Louisiana. It's like condensed coffee.

Ester Dean

#14. If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Mandy Patinkin

#15. Those who do not know history will forever remain children

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.

Noah Webster

#18. When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#19. To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to live the life of a child forever. For what is a man's life, unless woven into the life of our ancestors by the memory of past deeds?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#21. Children see beauty in everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#23. History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24. Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#25. Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.

Matthea Harvey

#26. 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?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#27. To be ignorant of history is to remain always a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#28. As Cicero would later declare, 'For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by a sense of history?"3

Adrian Goldsworthy

#29. The process of praying isn't about letting God know what you need, it's about letting you know more completely how much you need God and how vital having a relationship with Him is.

Karen Barber

#30. We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#31. Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#32. See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.

Yagyu Munenori

#33. History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#34. The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero