Allies Quote by Annie Jump Cannon

“[T]he mind wearies easily when it strives to grapple with the Infinite, and to trace the footsteps of the Almighty as he strides from…

— H. Rider Haggard

The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It…

— Thomas Paine

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and…

— John Adams

“He who acquires knowledge and acts up to it and teaches it to the people is noble to the angels of heaven and earth.…

— Imam Al-Ghazali

“It is the misapplied intelligence God has given us that makes all the mischief on the earth. That intelligence He designed to carry out…

— Brigham Young

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

— Pierre Charron

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning…

— Thomas Jefferson

“No one thing shows the greatness and power of the human intellect or the loftiness and nobility of man more than his ability to…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“He created us through the long and complex process of Natural and Sexual Selection, which is none other than His ingenious device for instilling…

— Margaret Atwood

“What he [the intellectual] should learn to do is to put what he has been able to salvage from the disciplines that taught him…

— Jean-Paul Sartre