Facts Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

— Morgan Freeman

“The World needs Educated Persons not the Literate Ones”

— Yarro Rai

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

— Anonymous

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

— Mary McCarthy

The world is full of smart, poor people.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

— Seneca the Younger

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

— Don Herold

It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies…

— Koichiro Matsuura

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

— Bill Gates

The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be…

— Louis O. Kelso

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

— Ha-Joon Chang

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

— Ali ibn Abi Talib