Top 100 Quotes About Illiterate
#1. If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
Jimmy Carter
#2. That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee
#3. The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It is we who are illiterate.
Erica Jong
#4. 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 power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#5. The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
Louis Leakey
#6. Parents here only view school as a way to avoid being illiterate. They don't see education as a way to change their future and help them out of poverty.
Dan Washburn
#7. If you tell me I have to talk like an illiterate halfwit to fit into this society, I will punch you.
Kevin Hearne
#8. There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.
Eugene H. Peterson
#9. I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
Jerry Seinfeld
#11. We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsmen who cannot read at all, and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for "source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite, weak of character, without opinion." In
Geraldine Brooks
#13. As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)
Robin R. Meyers
#14. To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity
be it art, music, literature, or science
is the way it enriches our lives.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#15. It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.
Joseph Addison
#16. Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.
Roseanne Barr
#17. I wonder is illiterate people know the full meaning of alphabet soup?
Jerry Seinfeld
#18. An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white, men and women - live happily as children of the same Lord. Thus experiencing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
#19. A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. 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 with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
Will.i.am
#21. My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.
Kirk Douglas
#22. Don't make fun of me," Lan snapped. "I'm illiterate, not stupid! I know there's no B in subtle!
R. Lee Smith
#23. I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.
Brian Friel
#24. 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 not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.
Niger Innis
#25. I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.
John McAfee
#26. (My sole fond memory from this period is of a rubbery little Appalachian number by the name of June. Acrobatic tongue. Tooth decay. Illiterate in everything but love.)
Tim O'Brien
#27. After twelve centuries, a little hope had come into the world - and then came an illiterate prince to ride roughshod over it with a barbarian horde and...
Walter M. Miller
#28. 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 only sense that matters.
George Steiner
#29. In a sense the U.S. is climate illiterate. If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change even in Brazil, China you have more people who know about the problem and think deep cuts in emission are needed.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
#31. A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman?
Cornelia Funke
#33. One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#34. I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.
Alexandra Ripley
#35. There are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.
Marjorie Hillis
#36. 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 joy.
John Steinbeck
#38. The signifieds butt-heads with the signifiers
and we all fall down slackjawed to marvel at words
while across the sky sheet impossible birds
in a steady illiterate movement homewards.
Joanna Newsom
#39. White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.
Chris Crass
#40. But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.
Vladimir Nabokov
#41. Marianne, how's your statistics?" "Math is my worst subject." "But you can program?" "Of course. I'm not illiterate.
Joe Haldeman
#42. I recognized one of the qualities I most admired in my wife: the beautiful big handwriting of the illiterate that she was. Darling,
Patrick Modiano
#43. The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
#44. There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn.
Virginia Aird
#45. 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 at it much.
Alfie Allen
#46. The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
John Sladek
#47. You can't imagine what the Russian alphabet looks like. It's no wonder people are illiterate.
Jonas Jonasson
#48. My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.
Evangeline Lilly
#49. Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
Bruce Sterling
#50. When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.
Michael Bassey
#51. You will find that the dullest, most functionally illiterate mental mushroom has a very definite, very "scientific" view on one thing: the impossibility of any kind of psychic phenomena.
Simon
#52. It's scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.
Amartya Sen
#53. 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 'get a life' by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.
Lynne Truss
#54. When the only rule is there are no rules becomes literal, we'll all become illiterate and unable to offend one another at all.
Brian Spellman
#55. There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
Peter Diamandis
#56. Corruption in education leads to some people getting highly educated and then these people support the uneducated to rule over the illiterate masses.
Amit Abraham
#57. Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil." "A which?" "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years.
Mark Twain
#58. 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 a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.
Tim Berners-Lee
#59. You won't comprehend the vitality of literacy until you marry an illiterate.
Kshitij Shringi
#60. Most people who spew hatred aren't very intelligent or motivated. They tend to be lazy, and if for some reason they are coaxed into picking up a pen, their messages are mostly incoherent and largely illiterate.
Damien Echols
#61. If you've ever wondered how many prisons need to operate withinin America, just look at the literacy rate. 60% of America's prison inmates are illiterate and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems.
United States Dept. Of Education
#62. Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.
Che Guevara
#63. The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.
James Purdy
#64. 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, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
Nelson Mandela
#65. I want to weep too, not for me but for us all
for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#66. 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 illiterate adult try to do it.
John Steinbeck
#67. For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.
Anand Gopal
#68. Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.
Harry Browne
#69. Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
Louis Menand
#70. Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.
Walter Benjamin
#71. 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 and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged.
Henry Giroux
#73. Why should the illiterate man have this power, which the learned man has not? The illiterate one, through faith in Christ, has come into the atmosphere of pure, clear truth, while the learned man has turned away from the truth.
Ellen G. White
#74. My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.
Benjamin Carson
#75. Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.
Mary McCarthy
#76. To be ignorant is to be in the dark;
to be wise is to be in the light.
An illiterate person is disabled intellectually;
an unenlightened person is handicapped spiritually.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#77. Evening: a spotless record, knowledge, stimulating conversation - but he had no love. She had nothing to offer Christ that evening but a terrible record. She was almost assuredly illiterate, and she couldn't talk for crying. But she had love.
Beth Moore
#78. 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
#79. I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
Alison Bechdel
#80. There was a time, when we were illiterate, insane and inhuman, and we needed religion to control the masses for the good or evil, but now we are in the time of the technological advancement, we are educated and we must let go off religion.
M.F. Moonzajer
#81. We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance ... What divides us from them is the column of print. Theirs was a total culture involving all the senses, while ours is a culture concentrated in the literate eye.
Nick Joaquin
#82. I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.
Bobby Sherman
#83. 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 was an illiterate dolt.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#84. Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#85. Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
Yanni
#86. 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 and learn again.
Alvin Toffler
#87. 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 just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#88. Go read a book you illiterate son of a bitch and step up your vocab
Bun B.
#89. 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
#90. You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.'
Christina Ricci
#91. I don't say things like "the grace of God." All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many people, it's gibberish. Likewise, the idea that the Koran was dictated by an archaic illiterate is a fantasy.
Christopher Hitchens
#92. A man may be accomplished in art, literature, and science, and yet, in honesty, virtue, truthfulness, and the spirit of duty, be entitled to take rank after many a poor and illiterate peasant.
Samuel Smiles
#93. Violence is the repartee of the illiterate
Alan Brien
#94. I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.
Jennifer Ouellette
#95. Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.
Peter Drucker
#96. Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
Mary Karr
#97. 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 economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
Sachin Tendulkar
#98. I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants
Michael Moore
#99. Michelangelo's cook was illiterate, so he drew her a shopping list--- which today is priceless.
Mitchell Symons
#100. I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.
Terry Eagleton
