Illiterate Quotes

146 Illiterate quotes by 127 unique authors

True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the… — John Cassian
A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world… — Vladimir Putin
When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about… — George Lucas
I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history. — Alison Bechdel
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. — Walter Lippmann
White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate. — Chris Crass
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… — John Thomas Sladek
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with… — Mary McCarthy
Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. — Mao Zedong
If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly… — Greg Mortenson
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… — Bruce Sterling
There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most… — Eugene H. Peterson
No, I consider myself computer illiterate. — Casper Van Dien
When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education. — Michael Bassey
The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing… — Barbara Kingsolver
My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want… — Benjamin Carson
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. — Michel de Montaigne
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the… — Oscar Wilde
God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough.… — Philip Yancey
Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially… — Savitri Devi
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now. — George Bernard Shaw
Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate. — Roseanne Barr
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… — Ann Coulter
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. — Aleister Crowley
I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate. — Terry Eagleton

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