Alphabet Quote by B. F. Skinner

“How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important? But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle's…

— Linda Sue Park

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

— Socrates

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of…

— Alexander Kluge

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

— Roger Moore

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning…

— Simon Newcomb

“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except…

— Carl Sagan

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

— Elizabeth I

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by…

— David McCullough

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The…

— Jamais Cascio

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles…

— Carl Sagan