"A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels……" — Maria Mitchell
"A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition."
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48 Quotes by Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell has 48 quotes on this site.
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Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone…
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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
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I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the…
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The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best…
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We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.
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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and…
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That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
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No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
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The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
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For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman…
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A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their…
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When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of…
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More Acquisition Quotes
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the…
— Jane Austen
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen…
— John Cage
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive…
— J. G. Holland
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.
— Robert Bunsen
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances -…
— Peter Drucker
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The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and…
— J. William Fulbright
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
— William James
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If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as…
— William James
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Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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