Intellectual Freedom Quotes

"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." "Good ideas are free – or at least they should be." "Imagination governs the world." "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind" "Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind" "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned"