Illiterate Person Quotes

• 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

  Real, People, Talent

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• Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

  Jeffrey Archer

  People, Entering, Today

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Greek, Mountain

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• 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

  Education, Teaching, Doe

  "The Portrait of a Future Leader" by Anne Loehr, www.wired.com. June 18, 2015.

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

  Walt Whitman

  Education, Humble, Stupidity

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Dream, World, Fool

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• 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

  Writing, Learning, Years

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• 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.

  Michael Scheuer

  Hate, Military, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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