{"quotes":[{"text":"Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["control","freedom","lies","sophistication","truth"],"id":1957,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. ","author":"Jim Henson","tags":["inner-child","innocence","sophistication"],"id":124151,"author_id":"Jim+Henson"},{"text":"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.","author":"Clare Boothe Luce","tags":["elegance","misattributed-to-apple","misattributed-to-da-vinci","misattributed-to-steve-jobs","simplicity","sophistication"],"id":155035,"author_id":"Clare+Boothe+Luce"},{"text":"Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["friendship","humor","sophistication"],"id":157658,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication. Under the cloak of universal themes and terms such as freedom, change, and acceptance, madness ensues, being readily welcomed by those whose mind's eye questions nothing.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["3rd-eye","acceptance","anger","change","contrast","evil","freedom","fury","ire","madness","modern-day","nirvana","rage","seething","sharingan","sharpness","sleeplessness","society-s-ills","sophistication","universal","wrath"],"id":203242,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"},{"text":"Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["domestication","education","happiness","hope","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge","life","love","manhood","men","norm","philosophy","society","sophistication","truth","wisdom","women"],"id":209727,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.”The Zetet: “Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view….","author":"Marc Stiegler","tags":["better","black","black-and-white","evil","good","gray","simplicity","sophistication","white"],"id":227811,"author_id":"Marc+Stiegler"},{"text":"There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The boy is walking through the street of his town. He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world. Ambitions and regrets awake within him. Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the limitations of life. From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy. With a little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the streets of his village. He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["ambition","future","ghosts","life","manhood","nothingness","regret","sophistication","time","uncertainty"],"id":261025,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.","author":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","tags":["confidence","humor","self-importance","significance","sophistication"],"id":280467,"author_id":"F.+Scott+Fitzgerald"},{"text":"Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["belonging","book","books","child-of-god","cool","education","enlightenment","friend","hidden-knowledge","innerworld","innerworlds","intuition","knowledge","learning","mystic","mysticism","quest","reading","research","search","sophistication","spirituality","student","study","superb"],"id":287576,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}