Illiterate Quotations

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.

I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.

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.

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

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

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

New Orleans was a real poor city, a real illiterate city, ... But folks who came here just want a chance. We are working people.

Ignorance and illiteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots with intelligence, once they are informed.

I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh.

Our neighborhood only gets cleaned up when they say Daley is coming. When the mayor's not here there's garbage flying everywhere. Kids running all in the streets doing just illiterate things. The mayor ain't talking about what needed to be talked about out here.

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.

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.

The reason Martin studied Japanese is because orchestra members teased him that he was illiterate in seven languages. He knew a little bit of French; he knew a little bit of Russian; he knew a little bit of Italian, but none well at all. They teased him, so he studied Japanese, because it was the hardest language.

Both of their fathers came from Bangladesh 40 years ago as unskilled, almost illiterate laborers. They went to work in the garment factories in the midlands. Later, they brought their wives over and put their children in school.

The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers.

You're illiterate to just about everything. You don't want to misspell. So that, for me, kept me...in a box and I didn't, wouldn't come out.

You're illiterate to just about everything. You don't want to misspell,

I read that script. It's one of the most disgusting, foul things I've seen -- by any illiterate retard -- in a long time. There's no limit to how low some people will go to write something to make money.

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

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

Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.

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.

The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.

And now I hope the Health Partnership and the community will ... continue to provide health programs, ... but also look at ways of coordinating the health care system to help the under served ù including those in the low socio-economic groups, the illiterate and those with no health insurance ù and to address health disparities, how the rate of diseases affect people of color.

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

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

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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