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.

When an illiterate gets angry, you’ll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

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

Beware the man of a single book.

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

Kuna tofauti kati ya hekima na maarifa. Unaweza kuwa profesa ukawa mpumbavu, unaweza kuwa gumbaru ukawa na hekima.

Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.

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.

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

…And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps… You’ll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, ‘I recently read where–‘ and they’ll cut you off and...

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.

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