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Quotes About Knowledge

Books were my pass to personal freedom.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Freedom is a public library.
~ Paula Fox
no people can be both ignorant and free.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.
~ Howard Stern
The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
~ James F. Cooper
Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.
~ Julie Garwood
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
~ John Steinbeck
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
~ Khalil Gibran
ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.
~ John Macmurray
That girl can barely spell her name.
~ Tupac Shakur
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?
~ Nathanael Emmons
Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!
~ Carmela Dutra
My philosophy is: anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.
~ Gabrielle Reece
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
~ Steven Wright
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
~ Thomas Sowell
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.
~ Penelope Trunk
I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.
~ Loretta Lynn