{"quotes":[{"text":"I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["dumb","dumbness","enlightenment","journalism","lie","lies","lies-politics","news","politician","reporter","reporters","smart","smarter","truth","well-informed"],"id":37777,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"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":"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acceptable","accomplishment","account","accounts","adeptness","admissible","agony","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","appreciation","apprehension","awareness","be-acquainted-with","be-conversant-with","be-familiar-with","be-up-to-speed-on","be-versed-in","benighted","book","books","brookable","capability","capacity","cognition","cognizance","command","comprehend","comprehension","consciousness","cultivated","cultured","desolation","despair","discomfort","distress","educated","education","endurable","enlightened","entertain","entertaining","entertainment","erudite","erudition","escape","escapism","essay","essays","expertise","expertness","fiction","funny","grasp","grief","have-a-grasp-of","have-knowledge-of","have-learned","have-mastered","have-memorized","heartache","heartbreak","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","ignorance","ignorant","illiterate","inexperienced","insufferable","insupportable","intolerable","joke","jokes","know","knowledgable","knowledge","knowledgeable","learned","learning","literature","man-of-letters","manageable","mastery","men-of-letters","misery","narrative","narratives","nonfiction","novel","overpowering","pain","perception","proficiency","quotations","quotes","realization","sadness","satire","scholarly","scholarship","schooling","skill","sorrow","stories","story","sufferable","suffering","supportable","sustainable","tolerable","too-much","torment","torture","unacceptable","unbearable","understand","understanding","uneducated","unendurable","unenlightened","unhappiness","uninformed","unknowledgeable","unlearned","unlettered","unmanageable","unread","unschooled","unsophisticated","untaught","untrained","untutored","unworldly","via-dolorosa","well-educated","well-informed","well-read","wisdom","woman-of-letters","women-of-letters","wretchedness","writer","writers"],"id":114644,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. 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