Literacy Quotes

Art is literacy of the heart

— Anonymous

I'd rather teach peace.

— Colman McCarthy

“Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?”

— Charles Frazier

“Lego, ergo sum”

— Corey W. Taylor

Creativity is the new literacy

— Chase Jarvis

Literature is my Utopia

— Helen Keller

I think literacy is everything.

— Henry Louis Gates

Reading maketh a full man.

— Anonymous

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

— Art Spiegelman

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Creativity is as important as literacy

— Ken Robinson

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

— Strickland Gillilan

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

— Rita Dove

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

— Peter Block

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

— Bill Drayton

Words are the only things that last for ever.

— William Hazlitt

I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.

— Ben Bernanke

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

— Mem Fox

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

— Marie Clay

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”

— Sir Ken Robinson

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

— Walt Disney

“Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could read.' They…

— Laura Pedersen

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to…

— Robert Kiyosaki

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors…

— Rene Descartes

The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how…

— Jerome Bruner

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very…

— Rebecca Solnit

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live…

— Danny Glover

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle…

— Maryanne Wolf

Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts…

— John Hope Bryant

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of…

— Edward Bernays

“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles…

— L.R. Knost

Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to…

— John Amaechi

Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved…

— Eric A. Havelock

Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was…

— Gene Green

“In short, the age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to…

— Isaac Asimov