Never make fun of someone is they mispronounce a word. It…

“Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”

— Anonymous

“In the school they teach you what the world means, and once you have learned, you will always know," Amar's father had told him.…

— Paul Bowles

“Ignorance means that you have not yet learned a skill, whereas stupidity means that you can never learn it no matter how much practice…

— Dr. Paul Hauck

“..:There's a difference between knowing what to expect and getting used to things when being in the wilderness for too long. Getting to used…

— Rafael Garcia

The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or…

— Salomon Bochner

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

— Ann Beattie

I know I mispronounce things constantly, because maybe I read more than I talk, but I don't know the proper way to say a…

— Amy Heckerling

“She squinted at his nametag. Her eyes weren't quite working. "What's your name?" "Stig." "Stick?" she asked, half ready to believe it. He shook…

— Kimberly Karalius

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

— Christopher Morley

I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.

— Toni Morrison

“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital…

— Richard Russo

I learned reading and writing from my mother.

— Sudha Murty

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

— Alberto Manguel

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read…

— Francine Prose