Top 18 Illiterate Quotes

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.

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.

Anselm of Canterbury

Ability, Illiterate, Seeking

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.123, 1895.

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

John Adams

Government, Reputation, Illiterate

Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.

Che Guevara

Band, 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.

Alvin Toffler

Education, Teaching, Illiterate Person

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

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

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Dream, Illiterate Person, World

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

Matthew Ashimolowo

Inability, Great Things, Illiterate

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

Walter Benjamin

Learning, Photograph, Illiterate

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

Aleister Crowley

Men, Illiterate Person, Greek

Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.

George Barna

America, Illiterate

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

J. D. Salinger

Literature, Illiterate

J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

Jeffrey Archer

Illiterate Person, People, Entering

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

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

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

George Bernard Shaw

Violence, Illiterate, Repartee

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

Jane Porter

Prejudice, Illiterate, Antipathy

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.112

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, Illiterate Person

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

Terry Eagleton

Book, Thinking, Illiterate

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

Michael Bassey

Calmness, Illiterate, Angry

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

John McCain

Wife, Illiterate, Rely

"82 days - Time cover shows a Russian soldier - 'How to Stop a New Cold War,' by Zbigniew Brzezinski: If Georgia not respected, U.S. should consider withdrawing from 2014" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. August 14, 2008.