Illiterate Quotes
146 Illiterate quotes by 127 unique authors
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The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were…
— Matt Taibbi
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A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has…
— Alberto Manguel
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A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.
— John Grogan
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A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor…
— Jim Trelease
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Oh noes, kitteh haz major angriez!” I said. I turned around to share a laugh with my companions and found them glaring at me. “What?”…
— Kevin Hearne
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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an…
— John Steinbeck
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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
— Abraham Verghese
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Love is blind,” Harriet quipped. “But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.
— Julia Quinn
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It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are…
— Paula Poundstone
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Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while…
— Mohsin Hamid
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I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
— Jerry Seinfeld
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In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn…
— Alvin Toffler
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I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
— Paul Theroux
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The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Because so many voters happen to be illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who could not read the name of their candidate…
— Shashi Tharoor
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My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.
— Gerard Depardieu
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The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to…
— Niger Innis
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Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick,…
— John Ortberg
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I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred…
— Edward P. Jones
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At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at…
— Peter Diamandis
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There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
— Peter Diamandis
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Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate…
— Henry Giroux
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