Quotes About Knowledge

no people can be both ignorant and free.

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Without books, I would certainly die.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government

A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Follow truth wherever it may lead you.

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson