Ronald Reagan Quotes

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

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.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward truth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Whoever does not love knowledge, then there is no good in him.