“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953, Part 2

About Ray Bradbury

1920 – 2012

American author of "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles".

“While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”

“Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.”

“Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.”

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”

“It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author—and not to learn it better.”

“There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.”