Illiterate Quotes

146 Illiterate quotes by 127 unique authors

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
A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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
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
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
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
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
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
Love is blind,” Harriet quipped. “But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted. — Julia Quinn
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
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
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? — Jerry Seinfeld
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
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling. — Paul Theroux
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
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
My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society. — Gerard Depardieu
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
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
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
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
There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth. — Peter Diamandis
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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