Hannah Woolley Quotes

The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.

Hannah Woolley

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• Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • Education
  • Single

• 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

• In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • American
  • Education
  • Recess

• I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Always

• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
  • Education

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Children
  • Education
  • Community

• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Chance

• In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Education

• You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Education
  • Security

• Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Blessed

• During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Time
  • School
  • Education

• The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Habit

• Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Society
  • Education

• I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Value

• When I was first elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in 2000, we had to carry a big binder filled with hundreds of pages to every meeting. By 2004, the State Board had gone paperless. We even persuaded the less-tech-savvy members to use laptops to pull up their information during meetings.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Up
  • Education

• I want broadband to grow, more mobile devices available, particularly in underprivileged communities. I want STEM education to go ahead and fund the next generation of engineers.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Education

• You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Education
  • Childhood
  • Memory

• When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.

  

  Langston Hughes

• I'm a girl who's curvy, and I'm Latvian, but I don't have hips, and I have a tiny waist.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Girl

• Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Knowledge

• The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.

  

  Hannah Woolley
  • Education
  • Female sex