{"quotes":[{"text":"You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["enlighten","enlightenment","ignorance","learning","life","life-and-sayings","philosopher","philosophy","sage","student","teacher","teaching","wisdom","wise-sayings"],"id":12821,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["applause","blessed","brave","cathedrals","church","churches","civilize","clergyman","creeds","dead","discoveries","elevate","enlighten","errors","fact","facts","failed","falsehoods","generals","genesis","geology","great","harmony","holy-writ","honest","hypocrites","ignorant","lectures","living","mankind","minister","miracles","miraculous","mistakes","money","nature","past","patriot","peers","perfert","philanthropist","philosopher","poet","priest","progress","pursuit","real","recognition","reputation","sacred","school","science","scientific","stlers","superstition","teacher","think","truth","university","use","vapid","waste","weak","wealth"],"id":14144,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"I’ve heard that sometimes a version of you must die before another more enlightened version can be born. I think that’s true after watching the corpse of myself walk around.","author":"Julie Flygare","tags":["awake","awakening","enlighten","enlightened","enlightenment","inspirational","memoir","narcolepsy","waking-up"],"id":22268,"author_id":"Julie+Flygare"},{"text":"Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.If you are a doctor or surgeon, your expertise and knowledge comes from a superior position. But when our role is to be providers of care, we should be there as equals.","author":"Judy Cornish","tags":["acceptance","age","aging-parents","alzheimer","alzheimer-s","alzheimers","awareness","caregiver","caregiving","caregiving-motivational","caregiving","caring-for-others","conscious","dementia","elder-care","emotions","empowerment","enlighten","home","hope","journey","judy-cornish","kindness","memory","mindfulness","parents","patience","quote","and-sayings","teaching","wise-words"],"id":37651,"author_id":"Judy+Cornish"},{"text":"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.","author":"Edward Said","tags":["civilization","death","democracy","destruction","empire","enlighten","exceptionalism","force","imperialism","intellectuals","misery","mission","mission-civilizatrice"],"id":46157,"author_id":"Edward+Said"},{"text":"It's not our mission to change or direct another person's path. There is no wrong way or right way. We each have our own life journey and our mission is to just become a LIGHT that enlightens other people's pathways.","author":"Jan Mckingley Hilado","tags":["enlighten","inspirational","journey","light","mission","path","spiritual"],"id":59976,"author_id":"Jan+Mckingley+Hilado"},{"text":"Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we can be taught to love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["aware","awareness","consciousness","educate","education","enlighten","enlightenment","harmony","inspiration","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","peace","preach","quote","raise","teach-love","togetherness","unity"],"id":60240,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Let the light of love enlighten the whole world. Let the power of love overpower all the evils.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish","debasish-mridha","enlighten","light-of-love","mridha","overpower-all-the-evils","philosophy","power-of-love","whole-world"],"id":69386,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Find strength in your heartbeat, than weakness with a beat heart. Take each breath as another chance, and love for a new day.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["another","beat-heart","beginning","breath","brighten","chance","change","enlighten","faint","find-a-way","freshness","heartbeat","hope","love","new","quit","refresh","seek","stay-strong","strength","tired","weary"],"id":83453,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["consciousness","ego","enlighten","enlightened","enlightenment","inspiration","inspirational","judge","judging","judgment","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lack","learn","lesson","life-hacks","life-lessons","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","present","quote","self","self-help","self-improvement","transcend","transform","truth"],"id":87646,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}