Civilization Quote by Andre Maurois

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they…

— Joseph Addison

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian…

— Daniel Defoe

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find…

— Annie Oakley

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that…

— Hannah More

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

— Aristotle

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

— David Brooks

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

— Michel de Montaigne

“A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

— Voltaire

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

— Jeremy Collier

“The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft