Ray Bradbury Quotes

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't truly understand.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to guide his/her child through the reading of every book imaginable. Censorship of any form punishes curiosity.