"Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment." — Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment."

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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97 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary…
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many…
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great…
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom,…
I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once…
All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best…
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of…
'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you…
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
A woman's health is her capital.
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of…

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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of… — John C. Calhoun
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — Winston Churchill
It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything. — Evita Peron
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity. — Oscar Wilde
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. — Alexander Pope
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age… — William Shakespeare
If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants. — Albert Einstein
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics… — Albert Einstein
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived… — Helen Keller

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