A country that does not know how to read and write is easy…

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

— Pierre Bayle

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

— Demosthenes

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

— Demosthenes

“He believed me, and I was overwhelmed by bitterness when I saw that he did. My tears stopped; I told myself that it was…

— Claire de Duras

“I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning…

— Shandy L. Kurth

I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue.

— Angel Cabrera

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

— Henry Louis Gates

You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read…

— Charlton Laird

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

— Juan Enriquez

To read and write is a paradise.

— Carlos Fuentes

The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many…

— H. L. Mencken

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

— Sloan Wilson

I will take classes in Kannada and will learn to read and write it.

— Nikita Thukral

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to…

— Countee Cullen