246 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts...

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.