Quotes From Famous Dyslexics

“I barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was nowhere to get help.”

-- Bruce Jenner, Olympic gold medallist

“I couldn’t read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.”

-- Charles Schwab, Entrepreneur

“As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.”

-- Henry Winkler, Actor/Director

“I barely made it through school, I read real slow. But I like to find things that nobody else has found, like a dinosaur egg that has an embryo inside. Well, there are 36 of them in the world, and I found 35.”

--Dr. John R. Horner, American paleontologist

“My teachers say I’m addled…my father thought I was stupid, and I almost decided I be a dunce.”

-- Thomas Edison, Inventor

“I never read in school. I got really bad grades – D’s and F’s and C’s in some classes, and A’s and B’s in other classes. In the 2^nd week of 11^th grade I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.”

-- Cher, Singer

“I hated school…One of the reasons was a learning difficulty called dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can’t spell…”

--Loretta Young, Actress of the 30’s & 40’s

“I was one of the ‘puzzle children’ myself – a dyslexic…And I still have a hard time reading today. Accept the fact. Refuse to feel sorry for yourself. You have a challenge; never quit!”

-- Nelson Rockefeller, 41^st Vice President of the U.S.

“I was, on the whole, considerably discouraged by my school days. It was not pleasant to feel oneself so completely left behind at the beginning of the race.”

-- Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister