Literate Quotes

All literary men are Red Sox fans-to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. (John Cheever)
I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal. View quote
Octavia Butler
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. View quote
Eric Hoffer
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. View quote
David Antin
In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree of illiteracy was very high.... the early men of science were left very much to themselves and such a phrase as "the scientific culture of Alexandria in the third century B. C." does not cover any reality. In a sense, this is still true today; the real pioneers are so far ahead of the crowd (even a very literate crowd) that they remain almost alone... View quote
George Sarton
One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The literate man is a sucker for propaganda... You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. View quote
Alan Moore
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. View quote
Bill Nye
If you want to be rich, you need to be financially literate. (Robert Kiyosaki)
I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question. View quote
Robertson Davies
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. View quote
Robertson Davies
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication. View quote
Alberto Manguel
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. View quote
Nelson Mandela
There's definitely a value in being literate. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy. View quote
Mark Millar
In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate. View quote
Ajay Devgan
I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years. View quote
June Lockhart
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary. View quote
Lynn Johnston
Today, of course, it is customary to collapse, if not overwrite, our individual characteristics into new, but now acceptable stereotypes. It no longer matters whether one is from urban New York City or rural Georgia. It doesn't matter whether we came from a highly educated family or a barely literate one. It does not matter if you are a Roman Catholic or a Southern Baptist. All of these differences are canceled by race, and a revised set of acceptable stereotypes have been put in place. (Clarence Thomas)
Once upon a time, when the Yewnited States was just a little shaver among the nations, but already very spoiled along the literate Eastern fringes, there lived younder in Tennessee a lovable old man with a tongue like a rat-tailed file and a face so hard they called him Old Hickory. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
Hours then of blasphemy and fury and debate, all in the theological terms that seem shocking to the literate citizens today, who believe in God but just don't care to mention him or any of the other lowly friends they knew before they went to Yale. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
His reasoning had been introverted, turned from an examination of men as mammals and devoted to a sorrow that sinful and aching souls should not more readily seek the security of a mystic process known as Conviction, Repentance, and Salvation, which he was assured by the noblest and most literate men he had ever known, was guaranteed to cure all woe. His own experience did not absolutely confirm this. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess. View quote
Katie Holmes