Logo
Quote by Maya Angelou
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but unders

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. – Maya Angelou

Other quotes by Maya Angelou

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. – Maya Angelou

Category:
alone
Author
Maya Angelou
Read Quote

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Travel
Author
Maya Angelou
Read Quote

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Home
Author
Maya Angelou
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Education
category

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements. – Vanessa Carlton

Category:
Education

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. – Clarence Thomas

Category:
Education

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but Ive come to the conclusion that we all get an education. – Michael J. Fox

Category:
Education

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents. – Jennifer Garner

Category:
Education

Random Quotes

Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi

Category:
Knowledge

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a womans quality. – Pierre Corneille

Category:
Nature

Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
Men

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election. – Fritz Sauckel

Category:
diet