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Knowledge Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
- The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name…
- I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning…
- Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must…
- 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…
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