{"quotes":[{"text":"If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["auto-pilot","blinkered","environment","expectations","ignorance","narrow-mindedness","small-minded"],"id":24423,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["compassion","inspirational","kindness","kindness-compassion","kindness-friendship","kindness","kindness","narrow","narrow-mindedness","nonviolence","open-sky","peace","religion","religion-and-kindness","world-peace","world-peace-day"],"id":66434,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arguing","arguments","bigot","bigotry","bigots","certainty","close-mindedness","conviction","honesty","intolerance","narrow-mindedness","open-mindedness","passion","philosophy","politics","religion","subject","subject-matter","theology","tolerance","truth","worth"],"id":88527,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration. Collaboration gives us the freedom to come out of the boundaries of limited realities.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["collaboration","collaborations","collaborative","cosmic-consciousness","cosmic-ordering","freedom","limited-realities","narrow-mindedness","narrow-scope-of-life"],"id":117356,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"The objective of nonviolence is to create a beloved world community.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["compassion","inspirational","kindness","kindness-compassion","kindness-friendship","kindness","kindness","narrow","narrow-mindedness","nonviolence","open-sky","peace","religion","religion-and-kindness","world-peace","world-peace-day"],"id":178658,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["bigotry","conformity","culture","cynicism","deep","development","exclusion","experience","exploration","funny","funny-but-true","humor","ignorance","ignorant","intelligence","introvert","isolation","knowledge","learning","life","living","naive","narrow-mindedness","notion","opinion","originality","parenting","people","popular","popular-opinion","positivity","preparation","rebel","secular","shallow","society","solitude","status-quo","teaching","travel","unique","vacation","wisdom","world"],"id":197263,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.","author":"Stanisław Lem","tags":["aliens","closed-mindedness","discovery","humanity","ignorance","mankind","narrow-mindedness","self-discovery","space-exploration"],"id":262629,"author_id":"Stanis%C5%82aw+Lem"},{"text":"In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . Especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.","author":"Col. Thomas Aspinwall","tags":["blind-patriotism","history","narrow-mindedness","patriotism","progress","the-past","truth","xenophobia"],"id":264495,"author_id":"Col.+Thomas+Aspinwall"},{"text":"Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blind-beliefs","blindness","broken","corporateness","cross","death","evolution","fear","fear-of-difference","fear-of-unknown","finding-evil","hatred","heresy","illness","inmaturity","joan-of-arc","justice","killing","monsters","murder","narrow-mindedness","no-cure","no-ownership","please-forgive-them-god","quakers","rapture","rituals","salem","searching-for-evil","self-pity","superstition","traditions","victomized","witch-hunts"],"id":266329,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"It's really hard to deal with a narrow-minded people that have a limited sphere of thinking, what ever you tell him/herwill be twisted into falsehood, the truth will be lost and will ruin everything.","author":"Bradley B. Dalina","tags":["falsehood","liar","lies","narrow-mindedness","stupidity-of-man"],"id":277294,"author_id":"Bradley+B.+Dalina"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}