Top 245 Illiterate Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

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.

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

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

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

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

I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

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

It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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.

I'm technology illiterate.

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.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

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

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.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

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.

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.

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

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

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

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

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

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.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

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.

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

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