Illiterate Quotes

146 Illiterate quotes by 127 unique authors

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added… — Tim Berners-Lee
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources,… — Nelson Mandela
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. — Alan Moore
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. — J D Salinger
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's… — Sachin Tendulkar
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. — Alvin Toffler
Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. — Walt Whitman
We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many… — Robert Winston
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line… — will.i.am
I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for… — Muhammad Yunus
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders,… — Eudora Welty
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. — William Faulkner
Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the… — Nick Hornby
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and… — Fidel Castro
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action.… — Joseph Campbell
All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate… — Corrie Ten Boom
If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but… — Muhammad Yunus
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand… — Christopher Hitchens
Normally if I met a guy who was unemployed and illiterate who hadn't bathed in a couple of weeks, I'd be standing in a puddle… — Christopher Moore
I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret… — John Steinbeck
No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often aggressively instructed to… — Lynne Truss
Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically,… — Dalai Lama

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