Lois Letchford > Lois's Quotes

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
― Galileo

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.”
― Martina Navratilova

“Here I am, on the outskirts of Oxford University, a seat of learning for almost one thousand years, discovering people whose names have been long forgotten by most, teaching my child who supposedly has a low IQ.”
― Lois Letchford.

“Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Knowledge leads towards different kind of societies then those societies don’t relate with each other because people in those societies think, act and reacts with their knowledge that create different ways of life and different recognition of humans.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

“Whoever you are and whatever start you get in life, knowing stuff makes the world more abundant with possibilities and gleams of light more likely to illuminate the darkness. It opens the universe a little.”
― ian leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“All literature is protest.”
― Richard Wright

“Mary Clay said it: “I chose to define reading as a message-getting, problem-solving activity, and writing as a message-sending, problem-solving activity. Both activities involve linking invisible patterns of oral language with visible symbols.”
― Lois Letchford, Reversed: A Memoir

“I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire