Illiterate Quotes

• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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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, Illiterate Person

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

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

  Michael Bassey

  Calmness, Angry

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• Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Violence, Repartee

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• A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Hands, Golden

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• By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

  Alvin Toffler

  Powerful, Moving, Men

  "Future Shock". Book by Alvin Toffler, 1970.

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• A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Clever, Heart

  "Fictional character: John Grogan". "Marley & Me", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Education, Hair, People

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.385, Harvard University Press

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• The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Country, Moving

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• If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

  Jimmy Carter

  Memorable, Dollars, Benefits

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Illiterate Person, Greek

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• True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the case of the Apostles and many holy men, who did not spread themselves out with an empty show of leaves, but were bowed down by the weight of the true fruits of spiritual knowledge: of whom it is written in Acts: 'But when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned men, they were astonished' (Acts 4:13).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

  John Cassian “The Sacred Writings of John Cassian”, Jazzybee Verlag

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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, Illiterate Person, World

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• there are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.

  Marjorie Hillis

  Differences, Mind, Cosmetics

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• Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Dream, Religious

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• Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.

  George Barna

  America

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• If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Causes, Apes

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• By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

  Alvin Toffler

  Powerful, Coaching, Dimensions

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Inspiring, Education, Children

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• Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Speech, Fancy

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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

  Matthew Ashimolowo

  Inability, Great Things, Small Things

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

  Jeffrey Archer

  Illiterate Person, People, Entering

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

  J. D. Salinger

  Literature

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

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• Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

  Bruce Sterling

  Home, Ignorance, Literature

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

  Indira Gandhi

  People, Democracy, Dying

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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