Illiterates Quotes

18 quotes from 17 authors

Across seventeen contributors, these eighteen brief statements capture varied attitudes toward those who lack reading skills, highlighting both challenges and empathy.

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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

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Illiterates have to dictate.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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“They spoke with the finality of omniscient illiterates.”

Mikhail Iossel

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“Great institutions are built by illiterates and mismanaged by the celebrated academic class.”

Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche

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Knowledge wasted when illiterates use to exercising power

Kavinder Kanwar

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Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

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When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

Mammootty

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Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it…

Karl Kraus

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“Change is an institution that we all have to get enrolled into if we are really willing to make a difference! Those…

Israelmore Ayivor

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“At least forty million Americans can't read and write, according to this morning's New York Times. That is six times as many…

Kurt Vonnegut

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“Emotional illiterates, who don’t recognize the sound of a broken heart, will never be able to hear the subtle vibrations of love…

Erik Pevernagie

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Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

Chuck Klosterman

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The illiterates of The 21st century are not those who can't write and read but those who are not able to learn,…

Alvin Toffler

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It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of…

William J. Brennan

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Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care…

Katherine Anne Porter

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“In Catholic countries we saw (and sometimes still see) a large number of illiterates side by side with an intellectual élite of…

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to…

Ayn Rand

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“I'll tell you something banal.We're emotional illiterates.And not only you and I-practically everybody,that's the depressing thing.We're taught everything about the body and…

Ingmar Bergman

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