"My mother said I must always be intolerant……" — Maya Angelou

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy."

— Maya Angelou

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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget…
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love…
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go…
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able…
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that… — Isaac Asimov
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of… — Isaac Asimov
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning… — Isaac Asimov
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never… — Sri Aurobindo
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which… — Teresa of Avila
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church,… — Teresa of Avila
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the… — Richard Bach
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the… — Lord Acton

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