Best Literacy Wisdom
247 Literacy quotes by 176 unique authors
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Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
— Brigham Young
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Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest…
— Evgeny Morozov
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You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press…
— Howard Rheingold
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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain…
— Maya Angelou
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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
— C.S. Lewis
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Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Literature is my Utopia
— Helen Keller
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Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
— Roger Ebert
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You…
— Anne Lamott
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Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all,…
— John Derbyshire
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Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading…
— Carl Sagan
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No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated.…
— Richard P. Feynman
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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something…
— Katherine Paterson
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I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
— John Adams
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I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was…
— John Jakes
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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
— Malcolm X
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Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.
— Kofi Annan
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Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
— Martin Buber
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There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
— Margaret Atwood
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