"We all know that books burn, yet..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.
More by Franklin D Roosevelt
“To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.”
“Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.”
“Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.”
More on Books
“If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.”
“Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.”
“The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.”
More on Knowledge
“I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.”
“Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.”
“If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.”