FastSaying

How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of kn...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rath...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Nothing is respectfully amazing than a man who finds no shame to tell the world how grateful he is f...
HIMMILICIOUS A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dange...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater...
A.W. TOZER 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
THOMAS HUXLEY If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his ki...
DOUGLAS JERROLD The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar...
HENRY FORD A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
FRANK A. CLARK He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
RICHARD WHATLEY When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCER How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To a man, his world is what he sees, thinks and believes. But the man is not the world. He is just a...
SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER Don’t talk too much because ignorance is greater and more dangerous than your knowledge.
VIKRANT PARSAI Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recallin...
EURIPIDES If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his livin...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wi...
FRANZ SCHUBERT Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determine...
GILBERT MURRAY The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect o...
BESSIE STANLEY A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater t...
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well ...
THOMAS KEMPIS How his death hung over that house. It’s part of what I know to be true—your absence is greater th...
, AFTER VISITING FRIENDS: A SON'S STORY, 2013 I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave i...
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drun...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drun...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be the man of the house and earn less th...
TREVOR NOAH A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately w...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately w...
VIKTOR FRANKL A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
DAVID BORENSTEIN No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in se...
A. W. TOZER If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the futur...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet...
CHARLES STANLEY Let ye who believes the world to be finite as he is fall to the deepest depths. Ye who fail to expan...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) His problem is that he has to convince people in his own party that he can be a better candidate tha...
BRUNO JEANBART Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read; he will be the man who has not learned...
ALVIN TOFFLER Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than on...
JOSEPH ADDISON No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness w...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his ...
CHARLES STANLEY He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom...
MENCIUS He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom...
MENCIUS Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or di...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB I wish I were stronger and more secure in myself so that I could really spend my life with a guy lik...
GARY SHTEYNGART That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make m...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCER When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCER Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord The greatest proof of Christianity for o...
T. S. ELIOT How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, wh...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately w...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you...
LAO TZU I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many thin...
COLTON The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN You get a job when you have the right qualifications and work experience. Similarly, individuals sho...
MADDY MALHOTRA Godly womanhood ... the very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about ...
PETER MARSHALL The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
NAPOLEON HILL The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; ...
ATOM EGOYAN Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary The Old Testament does not occupy itself...
BENJAMIN B. WARFIELD Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is...
EUDORA WELTY The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL The expectation is that (gasoline) prices will be higher (in May-June) than they were a year ago, bu...
JANET RAY The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satir...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transpar...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is...
CRISS JAMI He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are no...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drun...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind, Believes 'tis alw...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, ...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Remember to afford yourself
the same generosity
you give to others.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be generous with your
time and energy. The harder
it is to give, the more
the other p...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Recognise how much
you have to give.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Although happiness is a state
of being, it usually still requires
some doing if it is to b...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Commit to being happy and
make the choices that will
support your commitment.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be courageous in your
decision-making.
Stand by your choices
and never look back.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI

More Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowled...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of r...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and in...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purp...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the sou...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monst...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Shall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the so...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY [Monster:] I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Man, I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The scene of my existence is closed & though there be no pleasure in retracing the scenes that have ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy yo...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their min...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own r...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the sa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome vi...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul ma...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY We are tomorrow's past.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was n...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I am malicious because I am miserable
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ic...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mi...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Volume II: Chapter 5
The God sends down his angry plagues from high,
Famine and pestilenc...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Volume II: Chapter V
What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that peo...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pas...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Live, and be happy, and make others so.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficie...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY There are some souls, bright and precious, which, like gold and silver, may be subdued by the fiery ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY From thence we proceeded to Oxford. As we entered this city, our minds were filled with the remembra...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which sho...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and assoc...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of kn...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick su...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and rui...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience,...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did no...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all tru...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the exce...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY [I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roam...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they l...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Virtue can only flourish among equals.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and in...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadl...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of i...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of r...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT ...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfold...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their bro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morali...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast pr...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I aim at being useful, and sincerity will render me unaffected; for, wishing rather to persuade by t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY SHELLEY My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY SHELLEY The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery c...
MARY SHELLEY Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
MARY SHELLEY The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
MARY SHELLEY I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY SHELLEY I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appen...
MARY SHELLEY Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent o...
MARY SHELLEY And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for ...
MARY SHELLEY My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea...
MARY SHELLEY What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my mid...
MARY SHELLEY Elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY SHELLEY It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their mind...
MARY SHELLEY There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
RACHEL SHELLEY I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to,...
RACHEL SHELLEY I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.
RACHEL SHELLEY Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the...
RACHEL SHELLEY We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
RACHEL SHELLEY I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.
RACHEL SHELLEY I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. I...
RACHEL SHELLEY Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
RACHEL SHELLEY I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I ...
SHELLEY HENNIG I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all th...
SHELLEY WINTERS I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
SHELLEY WINTERS I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza...
SHELLEY HENNIG Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
PERCY SHELLEY It was so cold I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.
SHELLEY BOVEY Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
SHELLEY WINTERS If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
SHELLEY LONG He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh...
GEORGE SHELLEY I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.
SHELLEY HENNIG I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband ...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or y...
SHELLEY DUVALL People ask me, 'How's 'Teen Wolf?' and I tell them it's literally the best job I...
SHELLEY HENNIG We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.
SHELLEY DUVALL I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
SHELLEY FABARES The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to d...
SHELLEY BERMAN And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create ...
SHELLEY DUVALL Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But...
SHELLEY DUVALL Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.
SHELLEY DUVALL While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subvert...
KEVIN SHELLEY Where do you go to get anorexia?
SHELLEY WINTERS Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.
BRUCE SHELLEY a fraternity house. ... He wants you to have a good time whether you're working or not.
BRUCE SHELLEY My boss thinks it's the best entertainment product Microsoft's ever made,
BRUCE SHELLEY They just want to have the action.
BRUCE SHELLEY We do listen to the feedback quite a bit, ... We have at least one or two full-time people who are m...
BRUCE SHELLEY I got into this business to make games that I wanted to play. Turns out that there's millions of peo...
BRUCE SHELLEY We went as high as we could. We were actually putting graphic effects in here you couldn't see on an...
BRUCE SHELLEY The programming team set out to make the best-looking PC game ever.
BRUCE SHELLEY We haven't announced anything and we don't really have anything in development, but we're experiment...
BRUCE SHELLEY We want to do new kinds of games and do new and different things. We've been doing the same game for...
BRUCE SHELLEY I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when w...
SHELLEY BERKLEY Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
SHELLEY DUVALL