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." "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."