--- title: "13 May Quotes By Annie Besant" description: "13 May quotes by Annie Besant. Plus more from Annie Besant and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/annie-besant-2901_able_man-is-a-spiritual-intelligence-who-has_2285985.png" --- > [Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/man-is-a-spiritual-intelligence-who-has-taken-flesh-with-the-object/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/annie-besant-2901_able_man-is-a-spiritual-intelligence-who-has_2285985.png) > [As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/as-a-man-may-be-born-with-a-mathematical-faculty-and-by-training-that/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03e/annie-besant-2901_belonging_as-a-man-may-be-born-with-a-mathematical_1007047.png) > [Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/control-of-the-tongue-vital-for-the-man-who-would-try-to-tread-the/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7e/annie-besant-2901_enemy_control-of-the-tongue-vital-for-the-man_329921.png) > [The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/the-true-basis-of-morality-is-utility-that-is-the-adaptation-of-our/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f66/annie-besant-2901_action_the-true-basis-of-morality-is-utility-th_2900836.png) > [The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/the-world-with-all-its-beauty-its-happiness-and-suffering-its-joys/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3c/annie-besant-2901_beauty_the-world-with-all-its-beauty-its-happin_2908233.jpg) > [All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/all-men-die-you-may-say-is-that-encouraging-surely-yes-for-when-a-man/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f1/annie-besant-2901_blunders_all-men-die-you-may-say-is-that-encourag_2655552.png) > [Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/beauty-is-no-dead-thing-it-is-the-manifestation-of-god-in-nature/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91c/annie-besant-2901_beautiful_beauty-is-no-dead-thing-it-is-the-manife_3105137.png) > [Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/jeremiah-is-a-most-melancholy-prophet-he-wails-from-beginning-to-end/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/510/annie-besant-2901_blasphemy_jeremiah-is-a-most-melancholy-prophet-he_830734.png) > [It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/it-is-impossible-for-anyone-who-studies-the-life-and-character-of-the/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/annie-besant-2901_admiration_it-is-impossible-for-anyone-who-studies_571661.png) > [What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/what-after-all-is-the-object-of-education-to-train-the-body-in-health/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94f/annie-besant-2901_accuracy_what-after-all-is-the-object-of-educatio_1937172.png) > [Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/continents-may-break-up-continents-may-emerge-but-the-human-race-is/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ea/annie-besant-2901_break_continents-may-break-up-continents-may-e_2181978.png) > [If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/if-we-believe-in-a-god-at-all-we-must-surely-ascribe-to-him/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8a/annie-besant-2901_believe_if-we-believe-in-a-god-at-all-we-must-su_2342761.png) > [No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/no-soul-that-aspires-can-ever-fail-to-rise-no-heart-that-loves-can/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/895/annie-besant-2901_abandoned_no-soul-that-aspires-can-ever-fail-to-ri_520404.png) ## Other authors on May ## More by Annie Besant > [No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/no-philosophy-no-religion-has-ever-brought-so-glad-a-message-to-the/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/the-self-in-you-is-the-same-as-the-self-universal-whatever-powers-are/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/when-we-recognise-that-unity-of-all-living-things-then-at-once-arises/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/in-morals-theosophy-builds-its-teachings-on-the-unity-seeing-in-each/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/never-yet-has-a-god-been-defined-in-terms-which-were-not-palpably/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/after-a-study-of-some-forty-years-and-more-of-the-great-religions-of/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/the-human-body-is-constantly-undergoing-a-process-of-decay-and-of/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/sun-worship-and-pure-forms-of-nature-worship-were-in-their-day-noble/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/a-myth-is-far-truer-than-a-history-for-a-history-only-gives-a-story/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/there-can-be-no-wise-politics-without-thought-beforehand/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/every-form-not-being-the-whole-must-of-necessity-be-imperfect-less/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/the-divine-life-is-the-spirit-in-everything-that-exists-from-the-atom/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/debating-clubs-among-boys-are-very-useful-not-only-as-affording/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/morality-is-the-science-of-harmonious-relations-between-intelligent/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) > [The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/the-orthodox-believers-in-god-are-divided-into-two-camps-one-of-which/) [Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/annie-besant/#itemlist", "name": "13 May Quotes By Annie Besant", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Annie Besant" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/man-is-a-spiritual-intelligence-who-has-taken-flesh-with-the-object/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/annie-besant-2901_able_man-is-a-spiritual-intelligence-who-has_2285985.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/annie-besant-2901_able_man-is-a-spiritual-intelligence-who-has_2285985.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/annie-besant-2901_able_man-is-a-spiritual-intelligence-who-has_2285985.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below…” — Annie Besant", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Annie Besant" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/as-a-man-may-be-born-with-a-mathematical-faculty-and-by-training-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03e/annie-besant-2901_belonging_as-a-man-may-be-born-with-a-mathematical_1007047.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03e/annie-besant-2901_belonging_as-a-man-may-be-born-with-a-mathematical_1007047.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03e/annie-besant-2901_belonging_as-a-man-may-be-born-with-a-mathematical_1007047.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely…” — Annie Besant", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Control of the tongue! 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