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" "There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous." "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them" "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." "The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world" "And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world" "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them" "There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches." "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon" "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself." "And this I believe that the free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world" "A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."