Margaret Fuller Quotes on Knowledge
Margaret Fuller was a 19th-century American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate, the first major figure of American feminist political thought and a central figure of the Transcendentalist movement. This page collects quotes attributed to Margaret Fuller on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Margaret Fuller:
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
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“Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot.”
Life of Sir James Mackintosh" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 50 -
Attributed to Margaret Fuller:
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
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“Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1 March 1838); published in The Letters of Margaret Fuller vol. I, p. 327, , edited by Robert N. Hudspeth (1983)”
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see — I think that is enough to say about them... -
“Letter to her brother, (20 December 1840) as quoted in The Feminist Papers (1973) by Alice Rossi”
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. -
“Letter to Reverend William Henry Channing (21 February 1841) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 112”
Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ... -
“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”
Notes from Cambridge, Massachusetts (July 1842) published in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), Vol. II, p. 64 -
“Notes from Cambridge, Massachusetts (July 1842) published in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), Vol. II, p. 64”
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. -
“Letter to Rev. W. H. Channing (31 December 1843) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 184”
How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.