Mary Ritter Beard quotes

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. (Mary Ritter Beard)
The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation. View quote
Mary Ritter Beard
Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics. View quote
Mary Ritter Beard
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind. View quote
Mary Ritter Beard
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. View quote
Mary Ritter Beard
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism. View quote
Mary Ritter Beard
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it. View quote
Mary Ritter Beard

Mary Ritter Beard

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Occupation: American Historian
Born: August 5, 1876
Died: August 14, 1958
Quotes count: 7