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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. -- J. D. Salinger
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate. -- Jeffrey Archer
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. -- Aleister Crowley
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. -- Walter Lippmann
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. -- Jimmy Carter
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. -- Walt Whitman
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
'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan. -- Jonathan Kozol
If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon. -- Ann Coulter
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
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. -- Roger Bacon
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan. -- Jonathan Kozol
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
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. -- Alan Moore
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
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
If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate. -- Greg Mortenson
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
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 reproach on them. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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 reproach on them. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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
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
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
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
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, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed. -- John Ortberg
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
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 people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school. -- Robert Winston
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
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 that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate. -- Peter Diamandis
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 rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings. -- Richard Dawkins
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
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
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 women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind. -- Barack Obama
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
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 ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to this? Let the philosopher no longer disdain from listening to the common laborer; the wise, to the simple; the educated, to the illiterate; a child of a prince, to a peasant. -- Anthony of Padua
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 raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed. -- Paula Poundstone
Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate. -- George Barna
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate. -- Ambrose Bierce
No, I consider myself computer illiterate. -- Casper Van Dien
Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians. -- Che Guevara
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate. -- George Bernard Shaw
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate. -- George Bernard Shaw
I can read minds, but I'm illiterate. -- Mitch Hedberg
Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate. -- Jennifer Aniston
I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history. -- Alison Bechdel
I am the son of an illiterate father and mother -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal. -- Octavia Butler
He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation. -- John Adams
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? -- Jerry Seinfeld
I wonder is illiterate people know the full meaning of alphabet soup? -- Jerry Seinfeld
Love is blind," Harriet quipped. "But not illiterate," Elizabeth retorted. -- Julia Quinn
White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate. -- Chris Crass
To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate. -- Terry Eagleton
A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate. -- Hal Sparks
National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices. -- Jane Porter
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. -- William Faulkner
I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children. -- George W. Bush
Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future. -- Walter Benjamin
Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate. -- Roseanne Barr
My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society. -- Gerard Depardieu
The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around. -- Matthew Ashimolowo
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. -- Michel de Montaigne
When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words. -- James Purdy
A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community? -- Chinua Achebe
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling. -- Paul Theroux
I am a illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get. -- John McCain
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now. -- George Bernard Shaw
I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out. -- Mike Birbiglia
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. -- Yanni
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. -- Fidel Castro
Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. -- Mao Zedong
The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in. -- Wim Wenders
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
Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world. -- Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
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
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
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
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man. -- Colin Wilson
A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization. -- Vladimir Putin
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
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
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 device. -- Chuck Close
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
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
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 is collaborative. -- Godfrey Reggio
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
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
There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between a product and an audience. -- Ivan Chermayeff
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
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 sort of an illiterate. -- Rube Goldberg
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
What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man? -- Delores Phillips
You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work. -- Indira Gandhi
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
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
Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own. -- Anselm of Canterbury
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 that they are mathematically illiterate. -- David Mumford
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 that she can solar-electrify a village -- Bunker Roy
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy? -- Koichiro Matsuura
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
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
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. -- J. M. Roberts
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. -- J. M. Roberts
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 he is fool enough to do so. -- Robertson Davies
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
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . . -- Oscar Wilde
Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken. -- Tian Dayton
American teens have the worst of all worlds ... Our children are bombarded and confronted with sexual messages, sexual exploitation, and all manner of sexual criticism. But our society is by and large sexually illiterate. -- Faye Wattleton

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