Quotes About Knowledge

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

No one who lives in error is free.

Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of."

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.