Quotes about Knowledge

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Follow truth wherever it may lead you.

All is safe where all can read, is a quotation from Thomas Jefferson showing his belief in the importance of everyone knowing how to and being able/allowed to read. I would like to take it one step further. I would say, All is BETTER when all can read. No matter what you like to read, the ability to read it, understand it, and enjoy it, truly enriches your life.

Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government

The people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, & they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree.