#illiterate

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

— Jeffrey Archer

#entering #illiterate #people #per #prison

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

#brain #count #easiest #fact #how

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

#bush #called #cause #compared #critics

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

#cannot #does #future #how #illiterate

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. ↗

— Yanni

#being #illiterate #music #read #same

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. ↗

— Alan Moore

#childish #comic #comic books #films #illiterate

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

#collaborative #deaf #effect #everything #feel

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#being #books #campuses #come #ever

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

#circumstance #circumstances #everyone #home #ignorance

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#comics #history #i #illiterate #pretty