Illiterate Person Quotes:

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

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Men, Illiterate Person, Greek, Illiterate

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

- Walt Whitman

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

topic: Education, Humble, Illiterate Person, Indescribable, Expressive

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

topic: Real, People, Talent, Illiterate, Real Talent

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

- Jeffrey Archer

topic: People, Entering, Today, Illiterate, Illiterate Person

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

topic: Education, Teaching, Doe, Illiterate, Adult Education

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

- Joseph Brodsky

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

topic: Book, Reading, Burning, Martian Chronicles, Learning To Read

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

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

topic: Dream, World, Fool, Illiterate, Telegrams

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

topic: Writing, Learning, Years, Schooled, Illiterate Person

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

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Hate, Military, Believe, Mubarak, Illiterate Person