Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

Education is freedom.

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

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Only the educated are free.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

Liberty... is the great parent of science

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

Reading equals hope times change.

I'm all for education.

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

You can imprison but you can't enslave a man who argues with his books.

I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer.

If you seek learning, it meets you somewhere down the road.

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

I want to tell the children of Kashmir that they should read, write, and learn and come to the mainstream.

I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me.

The important thing is that you 'read!'

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.