{"quotes":[{"text":"The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alienation and instead develops populism and irrationalism and then calls it anti-elitism. On the other hand, scholars, due to being undermined by the society, find any effort hopeless and isolate themselves into their work. For a scholar, personally, nothing changes because the scholar always is a scholar no matter having someone to share the knowledge with or not, but the true problem forms in the most ordinary sections of the society, which eventually creates an opportunity for propaganda, conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and bogus.","author":"Kambiz Shabankare","tags":["alienation","anti-elitism","anti-intellectualism","bogus","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","intellectual","intellectualism","irrationalism","knowledge","problem","propaganda","respect","rhetoric","scholar","scholars","society","undermined"],"id":9115,"author_id":"Kambiz+Shabankare"},{"text":"There's no crying in the rank book.","author":"William Morton","tags":["academics","crying","harsh","history","sad","scholar","school"],"id":12576,"author_id":"William+Morton"},{"text":"If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["academics","betterment","character","college","curiosity","development","education","ethics","grades","growth","helping-others","higher-education","humility","inferiority","journey","knowledge","learning","morality","personality","power","professor","scholar","school","skill","status","superiority","teacher","university"],"id":18944,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.","author":"Steven Seagal","tags":["artist","warrior","scholar "],"id":18987,"author_id":"Steven+Seagal"},{"text":"No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["advice","advise","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","awareness","children","curiosity","curious","educated","erudite","everybody","everyone","experience","father","inquisitive","inquisitiveness","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge","knowledgeable","mother","motivation","motivational","motivational","parents","philosophy","respect","respectful","scholar","well-informed","wisdom"],"id":47919,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Islam’s all about knowledge, right? Muslims know everything. We seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. We seek knowledge even if it be in China, Yusef, EVEN IN CHINA! And we’ve reduced our religion to fuckin’ academics. The guy who knows Islam best is the one who really hits the books hard, learns his shit. Muslims brag about having no priests but we’re getting molested by scholars. Yusef Ali, books are not Allah. Even a book by or from Allah is not Allah.","author":"Michael Muhammad Knight","tags":["allah","islam","muslim","priest","quran","scholar"],"id":61722,"author_id":"Michael+Muhammad+Knight"},{"text":"Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bridges","build-bridges","corruption","democracy","educate","education","elections","ignorance","intellectualism","invest","knowledge","leader","leaders","leadership","library","moral","morality","peacemaker","politician","politics","president","presidential","presidential-elections","public-education","ruler","scholar","school","schools","suzy-kassem","values","vote","wall","walls","weapons","wisdom"],"id":64266,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.","author":"Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf","tags":["allah","dead","god","habib","living","remembrance","scholar"],"id":70516,"author_id":"Habib+Kadhim+al-Saqqaf"},{"text":"I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.","author":"Carl William Brown","tags":["ity","humanity","power","scholar","stupidity"],"id":91309,"author_id":"Carl+William+Brown"},{"text":"The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","inspirational","intellectual","intellectual","philosophy","philosophy","scholar","scholar","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":111531,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}