Conviction Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

— Oscar Wilde

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

— S. Truett Cathy

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

— Anonymous

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

— Koichiro Matsuura

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

— Josh Billings

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

— Patricia Hampl

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

— Benjamin Haydon

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

— Bertolt Brecht

“You are poor if you are ignorant, fortunate if you are knowledgeable, privileged if you are intelligent, rich if you are wise, and wealthy…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Education is the antidote to poverty.

— Arvind Kejriwal