{"quotes":[{"text":"We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amwriting","aphorism","aphorisms","book-club","book-review","book-reviews","books","bored","boredom","ignorance","ignorant","literature","reading","review","reviews","subjective","subjectivity","writers","writing"],"id":3237,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["apathetic","apathy","awakening","awareness","cultivate","culture","empathetic","empathy","ignorance","ignorant","life","mankind","nurture","reasoning","society","stupidity","thinking","wisdom"],"id":9830,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["false","ignorant","truth","wise"],"id":13639,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"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":"It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["almost","been","had","ignorant","it","pain","possession","recognize","suddenly","unbearable","value"],"id":17178,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.","author":"Clarence Darrow","tags":["know","compliment","ignorant "],"id":17343,"author_id":"Clarence+Darrow"},{"text":"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to lend its weight, require some other foundations instead, for human society cannot do without them, and it is dangerous to link up obedience to them with religious belief. If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["biology","consolations","control","ethical","evolution","ignorant","neurosis","psychology","science","wishful-thinking"],"id":30221,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["adult","child","children","choice","choices","fool","foolish","ignorant","inner-child","mature","maturity","naive","scolded","silence","silenced","stupid","suppress"],"id":32860,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["dictator","dictator","dictator","dictatorial","dictatorship","dictatorships","fate","fool","ignorant","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","nation","nations","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":43004,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.","author":"Richard Dawkins","tags":["ignorance","people","ignorant "],"id":43415,"author_id":"Richard+Dawkins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":128,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}