Best Literacy Thoughts
247 Literacy quotes by 176 unique authors
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
— Samuel Johnson
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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
— Thomas a Kempis
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There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
— Jackie Kennedy
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
— John Locke
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
— John Locke
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will…
— Horace Mann
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
— Katherine Mansfield
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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
— Marshall McLuhan
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A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
— Robert McNamara
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
— Maria Montessori
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
— William Lyon Phelps
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If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
— Steven Pinker
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
— Ezra Pound
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To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
— Munshi Premchand
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But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now,…
— Keanu Reeves
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
— Carl Sagan
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When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy,…
— Amartya Sen
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
— B.F. Skinner
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Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
— Grace Slick
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Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising…
— Adora Svitak
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
— Matt Taibbi
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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's…
— Sachin Tendulkar
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
— Paul Wellstone
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information…
— E. O. Wilson
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