I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know. - Cicero

Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.

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

Whether it is a natural instinct or a mere illusion, I can’t say; but one’s emotions are more strongly aroused by seeing the places that tradition records to have been the favourite resort of men of note in former days, than by hearing about their deeds or reading their writings. My own feelings at the present moment are a case in point. I am reminded of Plato, the first philosopher, so we are told, that made a practice of holding discussions in this place;