Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

Reading taught me how to write.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

You can’t have opinions unless you have information.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

We will fight ignorance and a lack of information with information.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

I don't have a problem with athletes speaking up, but I want to make sure before they speak up, they read up.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.