{"quotes":[{"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":"People respond more to the authority of status, than the authority of truth.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["ity","leadership","peers","status","truth"],"id":16528,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["alone","identify","peers","professional-development","publishing","solitary","writers","writing"],"id":36972,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"The higher you rise above your fears the higher you will rise above your peers.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["brave","courage","fear","fearless","go-high","go-higher","greatness","inner-strength","life-lesson","life-lessons","life","life","life-and-sayings","motivation","motivational-quotation","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-runners","motivational-for-women","overcome","overcomer","overcoming-adversity","overcoming-challenges","overcoming-fear","overcoming","peers","rise","success"],"id":48386,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about something that was more important to me than anything else. I bet there are people who go through a whole life and never experience that.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["bestfriend","company","emotions","feelings","friendship","peers","true-friend"],"id":79774,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.","author":"Ralph Ellison","tags":["invisible-man","peers","self-discovery"],"id":105978,"author_id":"Ralph+Ellison"},{"text":"...The presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me: their attitudes, their manners, their whole way of being! The people of my world, all my unhappy peers, have come to irritate, oppress and sadden me with their noisy and empty chatter, their monstrous and boundless vanity, their even more monstrous egotism, their club gossip... The endless repetition of opinions already formed and judgments already made; the automatic vomiting forth of articles read in those morning papers which are the recognised outlet of the hopeless wilderness of their ideas; the eternal daily meal of overfamiliar cliches concerning racing stables and the stalls of fillies of the human variety... The hutches of the 'petites femmes' - another worn out phrase in the dirty usury of shapeless expression!Oh my contemporaries, my dear contemporaries...Their idiotic self-satisfaction; their fat and full-blown self-sufficiency: the stupid display of their good fortune; the clink of fifty- and a hundred-franc coins forever sounding out their financial prowess, according their own reckoning; their hen-like clucking and their pig-like grunting, as they pronounce the names of certain women; the obesity of their minds, the obscenity of their eyes, and the toneless-ness of their laughter! They are, in truth, handsome puppets of amour, with all the exhausted despondency of their gestures and the slackness of their chic...Chic! A hideous word, which fits their manner like a new glove: as dejected as undertakers' mutes, as full-blown as Falstaff...Oh my contemporaries: the ceusses of my circle, to put it in their own ignoble argot. They have all welcomed the moneylenders into their homes, and have been recruited as their clients, and they have likewise played host to the fat journalists who milk their conversations for the society columns. How I hate them; how I execrate them; how I would love to devour them liver and lights - and how well I understand the Anarchists and their bombs!","author":"Jean Lorrain","tags":["anarchists","annoyance","annoyed","chatter","gossip","greed-obscenity","herd","laughter","opinion","opinions","peers","society"],"id":147086,"author_id":"Jean+Lorrain"},{"text":"Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["contemporaries","difference","different","dislike","dogs","enmity","friends","hate","hatred","outcase","outsider","peers","social-pariah","square-peg-in-a-round-hole","unique","uniqueness"],"id":210534,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["advantage","brain","cannot","differently","functions","health","mental","others","peers","research","researcher","see","things"],"id":211977,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"My wit is only as stupid as the audience.","author":"Aleksandra Ninkovic","tags":["audience","clever","peers","performance","smart","wit","witty"],"id":224729,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Ninkovic"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}