Quotes with illiterate

  • 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.

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  • Roger Bacon 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
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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  • Ann Coulter 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
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Jimmy Carter If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Louis Menand Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison - a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
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  • Walter Lippmann No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bruce Sterling 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
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Alvin Toffler The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Aleister Crowley The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Kelvin Throop III There is no such thing as a functional illiterate.
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  • Walt Whitman There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Benito Mussolini 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
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Alan Moore To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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