Ray Bradbury Quotes

If you're informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain things.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

If you can't explain your vote in 30 seconds, its the wrong vote.

The great thing about democracy is we're free to take in all this information and make up our own minds about what is truth.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president - and the president alone - who always makes the final call.

I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions

What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that's why as president, I'll take this very seriously.

When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.

Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."