Words matter. These are the best Maria Mitchell Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The love of one’s own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.
As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.
Question everything.
I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
We especially need imagination in science.
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
