Ray Bradbury Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Ray Bradbury quotes, Ray Bradbury sayings, and Ray Bradbury proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas. Ray Bradbury
Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness. Ray Bradbury
The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive. Ray Bradbury
We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush. Ray Bradbury
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Ray Bradbury
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security. Ray Bradbury
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. Ray Bradbury
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all creativity. Ray Bradbury
If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it. Ray Bradbury
I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count. Ray Bradbury
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes. Ray Bradbury
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. Ray Bradbury
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
In our time this search (for extraterrestrial life) will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there. Ray Bradbury
Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future. Ray Bradbury
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall Ray Bradbury
Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons. Ray Bradbury
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. Ray Bradbury
Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers. Ray Bradbury
The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive. Ray Bradbury
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. Ray Bradbury
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. Ray Bradbury
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. Ray Bradbury
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. Ray Bradbury
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. Ray Bradbury
You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power. Ray Bradbury
The hour passed in jewels and alleys and winds from the Egyptian desert. The sun was golden and the Nile was muddy where it lapped down to the deltas, and there was someone very young and very quick at the top of the pyramid, laughing, calling to him to come on up the shadowy side into the sun, and he was climbing, she putting her hand down to help him up the last step, and then they were laughing on camel back, loping toward the great stretched bulk of the Sphinx, and late at night, in the native quarter, there was the tinkle of small hammers on bronze and silver, and music from some stringed instruments fading away and away and away. Ray Bradbury
No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns. Ray Bradbury