{"quotes":[{"text":"Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["answer","answers","critics","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","misconceive","misconception","misunderstand","misunderstanding","right"],"id":8622,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women [or robbery].- Dr Bethany Brand, on Billy Milligan and Multiple Personality Disorder (DID).","author":"Bethany L. Brand","tags":["billy-milligan","dissociative-identity-disorder","insanity","mental-disorder","mental-illness","misconception","misrepresentation","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","self-harm","self-injury","split-personality","stereotypes","stigma","suicidal","suicidality","suicide","the-crowded-room"],"id":28670,"author_id":"Bethany+L.+Brand"},{"text":"Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["age","aged","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","belief","beliefs","birth","burial","bury","child","children","cycle","dead","death","die","elder","elders","fallacies","fallacy","funeral","funerals","funny","gone-too-soon","hereafter","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","joke","jokes","kid","kids","life","life-after-death","life-and-death","misbelief","misbeliefs","misconception","misconceptions","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","offspring","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","philosopher","philosophers-cry","philosophic","philosophy","prepare","prepared","quotations","quotes","rest-in-peace","rip","satire","stoic","stoicism","stoics","surprise","surprising","the-elders","the-hereafter","tomb","tombstone","tombstones","unprepared","weep"],"id":54786,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We live in a strange world where people don’t try to know who we are, rather they go by, what they think we are!","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["life","life-philosophy","misconception","people","perception-of-others","reality","strange","thinking"],"id":63492,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any category, if he's not representative, half of what's demanded of him is there. He's free of himself, he has achieved a grain of immortality.","author":"Boris Pasternak","tags":["individuality","misconception","originality","persona","self"],"id":96826,"author_id":"Boris+Pasternak"},{"text":"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that ‘there is no master of pronounciation’ have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is ‘pro-nun-ciation’ not ‘pro-noun-ciation’.).","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["language","master","misconception","mistake","pronounce","pronounciation","pronunciation"],"id":121609,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["100","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","beefy","beer-bellied","belief","beliefs","big-boned","blubbery","chubby","chunky","corpulent","fat","fatty","flabby","fleshy","funny","grease","greasy","gross","health","healthy","healthy-food","healthy-foods","heavy","heavyset","humor","humour","hundred-percent-juice","joke","jokes","juice","large","lean","mass","meaty","misbelief","misbeliefs","misconception","misconceptions","obese","obesity","of-ample-proportions","oily","overweight","paunchy","plump","plus-sized","porky","portly","potbellied","roly-poly","satire","skinny","stout","sugar","sweet","sweet-tooth","thin","tubby","weight","well-upholstered"],"id":152052,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If you look up 'atheism' in the dictionary, you will probably find it defined as the belief that there is no God. Certainly many people understand atheism in this way. Yet many atheists do not, and this is not what the term means if one considers it from the point of view of its Greek roots. In Greek 'a' means 'without' or 'not' and 'theos' means 'god.' From this standpoint an atheist would simply be someone without a belief in God, not necessarily someone who believes that God does not exist. According to its Greek roots, then, atheism is a negative view, characterized by the absence of belief in God.","author":"Michael Martin","tags":["atheism","definition","etymology","greek","misconception","philosophy","theos"],"id":157199,"author_id":"Michael+Martin"},{"text":"Immortality entails not invincibility.","author":"Ahmed Mostafa","tags":["delusional","delusions-of-grandeur","egomania","egomaniac","immortal","immortality","invincibility","invincible","misconception","misconceptions","self-delusion"],"id":177551,"author_id":"Ahmed+Mostafa"},{"text":"Islam desists violence practised by terrorists who kill their brethren and commit all despicable actions under the shelter of religion. Islam dissociates itself strictly from these people and their actions.","author":"Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan","tags":["islam","misconception","terrorism"],"id":215092,"author_id":"Sheikh+Zayed+Al+Nahyan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}