Quotes about Literacy
Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. They can put independent and even rebellious ideas in the heads of their subjects.
- Carl Sagan
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.
- Sean Covey
And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good.
- Barack Obama
The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.
- Stephen Covey
Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.
- Joseph Addison
teach them how to read, write, spell, and do arithmetic, all while staying physically fit and being kind to others.
- Ernest Cline
If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.
- Bill Gates
I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.
- Maya Angelou
The doors of the world are open to dose who can read.
- Ben Carson
if you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read.
- Ben Carson
We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.
- Billy Graham
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
- Booker T. Washington