Illiteracy And Ignorance Quotes

#1. Beware the man of a single book.

Thomas Aquinas

#2. Nor the dog she carries in her arms. Your power over our band is now ended, and you will never see us again. Then all the Winged Monkeys, with much laughing and chattering and noise,

L. Frank Baum

#3. A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.

L. Ron Hubbard

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

Maya Angelou

#5. Ignorance is Illiteracy.

Ahtesham

#6. I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

#7. She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

#8. To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Timothy Noah

#9. Women fight differently from men. You couldn't get me to hurt a woman's breasts for anything. I know how tender my own are when I'm PMSing. Besides, we feed babies with them.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. My husband is always accusing me of being a context-free individual. He asks something and he has no idea where it came from or what it related to. I have to supply him with way more supplementary information than I ever have to supply my female friends.

Heidi Julavits

#11. When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.

Karl Jaspers

#12. Oh, sweety-weety-pudding-and-pie, you are in so much trouble

Neil Gaiman

#13. If you love something, set it free. And if it really loves you, it will find a way to come back.

Selena Gomez

#14. Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

Rajneesh

#15. People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

Vaclav Havel

#16. No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

Tiziana Stupia

#17. Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#18. Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You're stronger. Trust your stillsuit. She

Frank Herbert

#19. The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy ... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own

Amartya Sen

#20. The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

Carl Sagan

#21. The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

Bertrand Russell

#22. It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Most of me believed she wouldn't show up today, but a small part of me still held out hope. I can't say that her choice has broken my heart, because that would mean my heart was still whole to be broken.

Colleen Hoover

#24. His lack of condemnatory zeal gave him a reputation in the religious hierarchy that ensured he would always remain a humble teacher in a backwater town.

Richard K. Morgan

#25. Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.

Toba Beta