Illiterate
Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.
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Illiterate Quotations
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. Salinger
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley
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
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
Jimmy Carter
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
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Walter Lippmann
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
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
Illiterate Translations
illiterate in Dutch is ongeletterd, analfabetisch
illiterate in French is inculte
illiterate in German is Analphabet {m}
illiterate in Italian is incolto
illiterate in Norwegian is analfabet
illiterate in Spanish is barbaro, analfabeto
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