Top 1200 Illiterate Person Quotes & Sayings

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!

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.

I am a computer illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

When it comes to spending the rest of your life with someone, you should do it with a friend. It doesn't matter if that person is illiterate, educated or earns Rs 10 or Rs 10 crore. Eventually, these things don't matter.

In Shyam Benegal's 'Welcome To Sajjanpur,' I'm an illiterate village girl.

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

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 unsuited for a 21st-century economy as an illiterate Central American farmer without a green card.

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

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 is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate-We are America!

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

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.

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.

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

I like the South: Southern literature and that relationship between grotesqueness and living below the Mason-Dixon line. But I also understand that people view it as a limitation - as an actor and as a person - perceptions that are really wrong: that you are ignorant and possibly illiterate, or that it's cute.

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

You cannot possibly expect even the most illiterate person on Earth to believe that you really want a democracy in Iraq while you are paying Mubarak $3 billion a year to pretend he doesn't hate Israel. And you're providing the military and diplomatic umbrella that protects the fascist government, if you will, of the al Sauds.

I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

Love is blind,” Harriet quipped. “But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.

Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95% of Americans are "scientifically illiterate." That's...the same fraction...of slaves who were illiterate before the Civil War.

Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.

I wonder is illiterate people know the full meaning of alphabet soup?

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

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.

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

Having a financially illiterate society is dangerous, and we have to do something about that.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

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.

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

I'm technology illiterate.

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.