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247 Literacy quotes by 176 unique authors

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I… — Dolly Parton
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are… — George W. Bush
People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them. — Robert Kiyosaki
Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them. — Guy Claxton
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. — Alan Kay
Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life all the way… — George Karl
Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new… — Irina Bokova
Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the… — Irina Bokova
PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy.… — Clive Thompson
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. — John W. Gardner
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us… — Edward Gibbon
If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and… — Danny Glover
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their… — Daniel Goleman
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and… — Alan Greenspan
I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote. — Ann Coulter
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with… — Norman Cousins
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever… — David Cronenberg
My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful… — Claire Danes
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. — Emily Dickinson
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. — Charles William Eliot
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as… — S I Hayakawa
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. — Heinrich Heine
There is no friend as loyal as a book. — Ernest Hemingway
I cannot live without books. — Thomas Jefferson
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. — Samuel Johnson

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