“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”
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Maya Angelou 247
American author and poet 1928–2014Related quotes
And it was an icicle just jammed into my chest. That my own mother—and with cause! It was not as if I was the greatest kid in the world. I was a troublemaker! I was a brat! I was a big-mouth pain in the ass! But that my own mother would not understand—at that moment I had what, now at age seventy-two I understand, was an enormous epiphany, which is: I really cannot support it, I cannot bear it, when people laugh at me.
Source: Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1018887/ (documentary), at about 28:10.
Context: About being beaten up by bullies as a child.
“My mother always said democracy is the best revenge.”
As quoted in "Bilawal Bhutto named chairman of PPP" by Barkha Dutt, at ndtv.com (30 December 2007)
“My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.”
Source: I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
“Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.”
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 467.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
I'm just like that, I've always been that way.
Crime Time interview (2001)
‘The Church is finished’ – Iraq’s Christians under siege https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/world-insider/the-church-is-finished-iraqs-christians-under-siege/article21820308/ (November 28, 2014)
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 23 (p. 563)
