Dorothea Dix Quotes

I try not to be overly analytical.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

I like to think I'm a very mature person.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

For men, to cultivate virtue is knowledge; for women, to renounce knowledge is virtue.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.