Literacy Quotes

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the tradition...

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years....

All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for...

Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Ho...

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need...

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher...

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built hous...

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the pu...

...it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of...

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t ...

When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:I must judge f...

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human br...

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bul...

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions t...

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...

For kids who are exposed to books at home, the loss of a library is sad. But for kids who come from ...

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets...

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pag...

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufactu...

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, s...

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform ...

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light...

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.