Robert Sheard > Robert's Quotes

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
― B. F. Skinner

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle

“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
― Carl Sagan

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
― H.G. Wells

“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
― Plato, The Republic