"Look into the nature of things. Search out……" — Frances Wright
"Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against."
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48 Quotes by Frances Wright
Frances Wright has 48 quotes on this site.
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Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
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I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
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Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary.…
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Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it…
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Credulity is always ridiculous.
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I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would…
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of…
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good…
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights…
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An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may…
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the…
— Aristotle
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Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving…
— Annie Besant
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,…
— Samuel Butler
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The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear…
— Dick Cheney
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on…
— Winston Churchill
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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue…
— Robert Anderson
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The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. ... An apology for America's values…
— Mitt Romney
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You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.
— Keri Russell
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed…
— Carl Sagan
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Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it…
— Mark Twain
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is…
— Marcel Proust
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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
— William Wordsworth
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