Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
Books were my pass to personal freedom.
I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.
The only way to be totally free is through education.
People can only be free if they are truly educated.
There are few greater dangers to political stability than the existence of an intellectual proletariat who find no outlet for their learning.
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. that's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. what's really important in life is always the things that are secondary.
The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
There are two ways to replace an orthodoxy: with openness or with another orthodoxy.
The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.
I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.
Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.
We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.
Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.
Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
