Ray Bradbury Quotes

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

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

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Only the educated are free.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

A man without education is an incomplete being.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

The very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men is knowledge.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man.