A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Knowledge Ignorant Prefer Tied Tongue

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman - Statesman
106 BC - 43 BC

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

George Eliot

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

Ambrose Bierce

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

Charles Spurgeon

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Aldous Huxley

All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.

Tony Harrison

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

William Shakespeare

To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error

Abdu'l-Bahá

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

Thomas Paine

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

Douglas Adams

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Walt Whitman

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.

Roger Bacon

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

William Shakespeare

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.