Top 241 Literate Quotes & Sayings

I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.

I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

If you want to be in network marketing, you have to be extremely literate online.

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that.

I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

Ancient Egyptian women had rights under the law. They could own land. Many were literate.

Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.

A democracy depends on its people, the literate and the well read.

Every literate woman is a victory over poverty

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 to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.

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

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

'Family Guy'. It's not only the funniest programme on television, it's the most wonderfully, indecorously literate.

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if what you really mean to say is 'less culturally literate.'

A literate, skilled workforce is essential for low-income countries to attract investment and fill jobs with local rather than imported labour.

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

I'm very literate on policy. I'm very literate on the issues, and I'm an American first. I've been involved in politics long before I was an actress. I just happen to have a platform now. I just happen to have a voice.

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

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.

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?

the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.

Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.