“Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.”

Source: The Haunted Mesa

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essenc…" by Louis L'Amour?
Louis L'Amour photo
Louis L'Amour 65
Novelist, short story writer 1908–1988

Related quotes

Gene Wolfe photo

“No man has a home unless he is master of a place where he must please no one—a place where he can go and lock the door behind him.”

"Slaves of Silver", Galaxy, 1971, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988)
Fiction

Dave Eggers photo

“You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity!

James Russell Lowell photo

“Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago

Dave Eggers photo

“Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?”

Charles de Lint (1951) author

Part Two: The Lost Music, "The Touchstone" p. 501
The Little Country (1991)

Henry Ward Beecher photo

“There are a great many doors open; but a door must be of a man's size or it is not meant for him.”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

As quoted in Henry Ward Beecher: His Life and Work (1887) by J.T. Lloyd, p. 261 http://books.google.com/books?id=MV5DAAAAYAAJ
Other Sourced

Ursula K. Le Guin photo

“There may be open doors before me, but I'm always drawn to the one that's locked.”

Book: Cometan, the Omnidoxy

Related topics