Illiterate Quotes
146 quotes by 132 authors
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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…
— Roger Bacon
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
— Jimmy Carter
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Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
— Jeffrey Archer
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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a…
— Kirk Douglas
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In a sense the U.S. is climate illiterate. If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change even in Brazil,…
— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to…
— Anthony of Padua
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I am the son of an illiterate father and mother
— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years…
— Porochista Khakpour
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I am a illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.
— John McCain
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What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully…
— Susan B. Anthony
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God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the…
— Anselm of Canterbury
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The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if…
— Koichiro Matsuura
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Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with…
— Alfred M. Rehwinkel
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This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the…
— Indu Sundaresan
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Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.
— Harry Browne
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