Best 25 quotes in «illiterate quotes» category

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Love is blind,” Harriet quipped. “But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.

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

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

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

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole.

And if Francoise then, inspired like a poet with a flood of confused reflections upon bereavement, grief, and family memories, were to plead her inability to rebut my theories, saying: "I don't know how to espress (sic) myself" - I would triumph over her with an ironical and brutal common sense worthy of Dr. Percepied; and if she went on: "All the same she was a geological (sic) relation; there is always the respect due to your geology (sic)," I would shrug my shoulders and say: "It is really very good of me to discuss the matter with an illiterate old woman who cannot speak her own language," adopting, to deliver judgment on Francoise, the mean and narrow outlook of the pedant, whom those who are most contemptuous of him in the impartiality of their own minds are only too prone to copy when they are obliged to play a part upon the vulgar stage of life.

It's hard to ignore ignorance, as we wear our brainy hat of hatred. Where the hammer hits the nail, indirectly.

The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the creation of the world out of nothing in six days by a personal God, vicarious atonement, absolution from sin by the shedding of innocent blood. This is the Christianity offered to the poor and illiterate of India... Christianity has percolated through the layers of dogmatism and bigotry, of intolerance and superstition, of damnation and hell fire. It takes on itself the quality of these layers and imparts them to those that are received within its folds.

Love is illiterate. Whether we write it big or small, we cannot read it. We might only guess. ( "I seek you" )

Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

The donkey heard the book gives wisdom and ate it.

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.

No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum of the parts, right? I see one hunk of metal and then another, and the puzzle opens. They turn in my mind and just make sense. Together they all mean something.

You cannot be both prosperous and illiterate at the same time.

The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and add to his knowledge, Nor will it suffice to justify learned men in the neglect and contempt of this part of natural history, that the men, from whom it must be learned, are illiterate mechanicks... is indeed childish, and too unworthy of a philosopher, to be worthy of an honest answer.

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

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

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