Illiterate Quotes

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
Nelson Mandela

Happiness, Fear, Help

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Alvin Toffler

Future, Person, Cannot

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman

Power, Person, Genius

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley

Person, Looking, Mountain

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
Ann Coulter

Him, Treat, Cause

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.
Jennifer Aniston

Here, Luck, Computer

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. Salinger

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
Jimmy Carter

Living, Dollar, Benefits

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Roger Bacon

Knowledge, Science, Brain

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
Sachin Tendulkar

Education, Health, Women

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
will.i.am

Politics, Business, Ignorance

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Walter Lippmann

Democracy, Short, Direct

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Alan Moore

Lazy, Books, Films

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
Jeffrey Archer

Today, Prison, Sixty

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.
Terry Eagleton

God, Book, Attacked

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.
Tim Berners Lee

Human, Poor, Between

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.
Elisabeth Shue

Today, Person, Read

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.
Godfrey Reggio

Real, Person, Everything

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.
Rube Goldberg

Write, Took, Engineer

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
Bruce Sterling

Home, Ignorance, Everyone

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
Alison Bechdel

History, Pretty, Comics

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.
Casper Van Dien

Consider, Computer

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
Louis Leakey

Almost, Majority, Paid

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.
Bobby Sherman

Learning, Through, Since

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
John Sladek

Problem, Able, Makes

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Good, Care, Made

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.
Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

Among, Percent, Million

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
Yanni

Music, Writing, Same

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
J. M. Roberts

Enough, Able, Far

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
Alan Brien

Violence, Repartee

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