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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley has 152 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men…
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure…
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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not…
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Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form…
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I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
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My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the…
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
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The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and…
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At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone...…
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
— Albert Einstein
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Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.
— Thomas Jefferson
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We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died.…
— Danny Glover
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own…
— Sebastian Faulks
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It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make…
— Blaise Pascal
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