Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-06-08 Jun 8, 2006The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.~ Josh BillingsThere are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.~ Roger BaconExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.~ Edmund Burke Jun 7, 2006A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.~ Benjamin FranklinTo educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.~ Frederick DouglassNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jun 6, 2006There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.~ Robert G. IngersollKnowledge and human power are synonymous.~ Sir Francis BaconIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.~ Thomas Jefferson Jun 5, 2006Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights~ Dr. Benjamin RushLearning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.~ Abigail AdamsThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.~ James Madison Jun 2, 2006The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.~ George WashingtonThe preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.~ George WashingtonThere is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.~ George Washington Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print