Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.

  

  K. Flay
  • World
  • Music
  • Chaos

• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • World
  • American
  • First

• Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Good
  • Hearing

• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • War
  • Dark

• No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Men
  • Me
  • Woman

• Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Good
  • War

• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Done
  • Winning

• We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• I think there will always be need of trusted voices in the investment community, but what the ICO markets are showing is that the world has incredible demand for future-looking projects!

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Think
  • Future

• Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share the same values and world view. We believe in a world order that is based on cooperation, on regionalism, on multilateralism.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • World
  • Believe
  • America

• If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.

  

  Chrysippus
  • Nature
  • Fate

• The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

  

  John D. MacDonald
  • World
  • Awesome

• As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Hope

• I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

  

  Jack Vance

• We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.

  

  Jimmy John Liautaud
  • Time
  • Single

• Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • World
  • Nature
  • Knowledge