Carl T. Rowan Quotes

Learning has freed more men than all the armies in human history.

Education is freedom.

Only the educated are free.

Universities are the temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

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.

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Freedom can occur only through education.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

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

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.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

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

A man without education is an incomplete being.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind.

No society has ever been great that didn't honor and foster learning.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of liberty & learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual & surest support?

Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power