Illiteracy Quotes

Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.

~ Toba Beta

Fight against illiteracy.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever imagine.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Illiteracy is the number one promoter of ignorance.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

~ Peter S. Jennison

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

~ Joseph Brodsky

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

~ Benjamin Franklin

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

~ Elbert Hubbard

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.

~ Bertolt Brecht

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

~ Eve Ensler

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

~ Ambeth R. Ocampo

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

~ Alberto Manguel

The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it.

~ Trevor Noah

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read.

~ Nicole Peeler

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?

~ C.p. Snow

Beware the man of a single book.

~ Thomas Aquinas

First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to show, deceived many and caused them to accept a form of belief harmful to the well-being of mankind. Taking its root in the lower classes, the religion continues to spread among the vulgar: nay, one can even say it spreads because of its vulgarity and the illiteracy of its adherents. And while there are a few moderate, reasonable, and intelligent people who interpret its beliefs allegorically, yet it thrives in its purer form among the ignorant.

~ Celsus

More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, our culture has been carved up into radically distinct, unbridgeable, and antagonistic entities that no longer speak the same language and cannot communicate. This is the divide between a literate, marginalized minority and those who have been consumed by an illiterate mass culture.

~ Chris Hedges

Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.

~ Alaa Al Aswany

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

~ Paul Bamikole

Illiteracy and stupidity are not quite different statuses, they are both the outcome of our lethargy and indolence.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs, when buying a newspaper.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.

~ T.k. Naliaka

You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

~ Karen Black