Literate Quotes
125 quotes by 119 authors
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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a…
— James Buchan
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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
— John Cheever
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We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
— Nicholas Negroponte
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A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community…
— Koichiro Matsuura
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I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.
— Wayne McGregor
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You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.
— Eugenie Scott
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Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner…
— Arne Duncan
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They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ... they never criticise in an…
— Eamon Dunphy
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read…
— Robertson Davies
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In terms of my profession, I'm passionate about financial literacy. I want to live in a financially literate society. I want kids to understand the…
— Mellody Hobson
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I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's…
— Bill Nye
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I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.
— Judy Holliday
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If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I dont expect to be a great…
— John McCain
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I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy…
— George W. Bush
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Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That…
— Sara Parkin
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Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down…
— Raymond Chandler
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I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their…
— Lucinda Williams
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My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary
— Lynn Johnston
Who Wrote These Literate Quotes
119 authors contributed a total of 125 Literate Quotes, led by these top contributors: