Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-08-09 Aug 9, 2005Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this.~ Toni MorrisonLock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.~ Virginia WoolfWhere men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.~ William Earnest Hocking Aug 8, 2005Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.~ Henri Frederic AmielThoughts are free and are subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature.~ Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus Aug 5, 2005It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.~ Eugene IonescoThere is a lurking fear that some things are not meant “to be known,” that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.~ Carl SaganThe first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.~ Isaiah Berlin Aug 4, 2005The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men’s minds.~ Harold J. LaskiIf the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.~ Justice Thurgood MarshallWhen men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.~ Thomas Paine Aug 3, 2005I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.~ Margaret FullerA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonIf a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.~ Anatole FranceIf you believe everything you read, you better not read.~ Japanese Proverb Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print