Frances Wright Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.”

“Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.”

“If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.”

“The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.”

“Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.”

“A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.”

“Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.”

“It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.”

“Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.”

“Man has been adjudged a social animal.”