Abigail Adams
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
-Abigail Adams
education
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-Abigail Adams
experience
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
-Abigail Adams
intelligence
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
-Abigail Adams
knowledge
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
-Abigail Adams
learning
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
-Abigail Adams
marriage
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
-Abigail Adams
men
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
-Abigail Adams
power
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
-Abigail Adams
power
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
-Abigail Adams
power
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
-Abigail Adams
wisdom
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
-Abigail Adams
women
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