Illiterate Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Educational, Hands, People

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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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, Illiterate Person

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

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Sports, Country

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• All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

  Roger Bacon

  People, Brain, Facts

  1267 OpusMajus, pt.4, ch.1 (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

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• There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Girl, Country, Children

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• A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?

  Jay Leno

  Trends, Labs, Becoming

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

  John Adams

  Government, Reputation, Stations

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• I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, etc. What inspires me? Who knows. I am not inspired that much. That’s why I write long form fiction - I am not much of a short story writer. Ideas come seldom, but when a good one comes, I really stick to it and see it out. I’m a problem-solver - I've never thrown out an entire manuscript; I've always forced myself to repair it until it was a lovable thing again.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Writing, Editing, Years

  "Beyond Diaspora: Porochista Khakpour". Interview with Roxanne Naseem Rashedi, lareviewofbooks.org. February 17, 2013.

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• I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mind

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• We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the idea that here is a number, and that number is above it, and that's too high. It's not a very complicated idea.

  Bill McKibben

  Oxford, Ideas, Numbers

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

  Robertson Davies

  Math, Fool, Enough

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.

  Greg Mortenson

  Mother, University Degrees, Looks

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• What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

  Delores Phillips

  Ignorance, Men, Law

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• The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Writing, Kids

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• This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the most learned and cultured poets, authors, musicians, and architects of the time - relying solely on his remarkable memory during conversations with them.

  Indu Sundaresan

  Memories, Writing, Musician

  Indu Sundaresan (2012). “The Twentieth Wife”, p.131, HarperCollins Publishers India

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• 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.

  Harry Browne

  Political, Would Be, Politician

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• Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an infallible dogma, implicitly and without question, one is regarded as an unenlightened ignoramus or is merely ignored as an obscurantist or a naive, uncritical fundamentalist.

  Alfred M. Rehwinkel

  Age, Doe, Ignored

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• It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?

  Koichiro Matsuura

  Education, Democracy, Adults

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• Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

  Benito Mussolini

  Rome, Doctrine, Looks

  "Hitler's Ten-year War on the Jews". Book by the Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1943.

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

  Fidel Castro

  Ignorant, Peasants, Millionaire

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• Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

  Che Guevara

  Band

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• 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, Illiterate Person, People

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• The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

  William Blum

  Media, Woven, Fabric

  William Blum (2003). “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”, p.15, Zed Books

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• 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.

  Mark Krikorian

  Immigration, Different, Cards

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• Therefore we pledge to bind
  ourselves to one another, to embrace
  our lowliest, to keep company with
  our loneliest, to educate our illiterate,
  to feed our starving, to clothe our
  ragged, to do all good things,
  knowing that we are more than
  keepers of our brothers and sisters.
  We are our brothers and sisters

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Knowing, Giving

  Maya Angelou, “The Black Family Pledge”

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