“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“To be ignorant of the past is to remain a child.”
Cicero
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“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?”
Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur? ([http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/orator.shtml#120 120])
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Variant translation: To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.
Chapter XXXIV, section 120
Orator Ad M. Brutum (46 BC)
Variant: Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
“Prejudice is the child of ignorance…”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
" On Prejudice http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Prejudice.htm" <br class="br">Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)
“To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.”
John Berger book Ways of Seeing
Source: Ways of Seeing
“There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
Context: There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.
The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced.
“To remain in the past means to be dead.”
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher
A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
That Courage is not inconsistent with Caution, book ii. Chap. i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)