Illiterate Quotes

146 Illiterate quotes by 127 unique authors

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. — Yanni
I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving… — Chuck Close
I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure… — Paul Farmer
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride… — David Mumford
Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if… — Robertson Davies
In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants… — Jack Weatherford
America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America… — Carlos Bulosan
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do… — Godfrey Reggio
The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just as… — Mark Krikorian
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social… — William Hurrell Mallock
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources… — Alvin Toffler
We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is… — Unknown Author
Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show… — Bunker Roy
Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate. — George Barna
I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look… — Alfie Allen
The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out. — Mike Birbiglia
The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best… — Michael Hastings
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a… — Rube Goldberg
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a… — Isaac Asimov
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if… — Barack Obama
Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future. — Walter Benjamin
He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the… — George Steiner
The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph. — Walter Benjamin

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