F

Frances Wright

8 quotes

Frances Wright may not have a Wikipedia page, but their words have earned a place in our collection all the same. Their thinking spans from Knowledge to Equality, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 11 quotes from Frances Wright, each offering a different angle on Knowledge, Equality, Truth, Religion, and Nature. Readers often gravitate to this one: "If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance."

“All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.”

— Frances Wright

Faith

All Quotes by Frances Wright

“These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.”

— Frances Wright

Knowledge

“Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”

— Frances Wright

Equality

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

— Frances Wright

Knowledge

“Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.”

— Frances Wright

Religion

“How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.”

— Frances Wright

Equality

“All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.”

— Frances Wright

Faith

“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

Courage

“Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.”

— Frances Wright

Christmas