Health Literacy Quotes

#1. Understanding statistics about the risks and benefits of a treatment is called "health literacy." It

Jerome Groopman

#2. I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager.

Scott Bakula

#3. Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

Kofi Annan

#4. I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved and wanted to keep. I am personal. I am essentially human, not intellectual. I do not understand abstract act. Only art born of love, passion, pain.

Anais Nin

#5. Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.

Patricia Aburdene

#6. In the end I value literacy more highly than health; if our two countries were full of fat readers, rather than millions of Victoria Beckhams, then we would all be better off.

Nick Hornby

#7. Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

John Derbyshire

#8. 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

#9. And if there was little honor in thieving from a thief, he imagined he would feel little shame in it, either.

Helene Wecker

#10. You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.

August Strindberg

#11. When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Amartya Sen

#12. My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

Philippe Petit

#13. While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues ... In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

Daymond John

#14. My soul is calm and bright as the morning mountains. But they believe I am cold, that I jeer, that I deal in terrible jests. And now they look at me and laugh, and in laughing they hate me too. There is ice in their laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

Rudy Giuliani

#16. There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

Sachin Tendulkar

#17. Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life.

Debasish Mridha

#18. There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

Matthew Specktor

#19. I call for the need of world leaders to address climate change and reduce the increasing risk of disasters- and world leaders must include mayors, townships and community leaders.

Ban Ki-moon

#20. There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

C. Everett Koop

#21. I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

Aaron Watson

#22. Every parasite needs a host," Jay said.
"Every Queen needs an empire," McLoughlin said.

Nathan M. Farrugia