Quote by Frances Wright
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. – Frances Wright

Other quotes by Frances Wright

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. – Frances Wright

Category:
Religion
Read Quote

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. – Frances Wright

Category:
Courage
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. – Josh Billings

Category:
Knowledge

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. – Brigham Young

Category:
Knowledge

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Category:
Knowledge

We give you the facts. I told you information is power – knowledge is power. We cant be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we dont have the facts. – Tavis Smiley

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Mediocrity

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three. – Author Unknown

Category:
Brothers

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes, he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. Shake it off. Stop complainin. Stop grumblin. Stop cryin. We are going to press on. We have work to do. – Barack Obama

Category:
work

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. – Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927

Category:
Writing