Top 61 Quotes by Dorothea Dix

About Dorothea Dix

These are some quotes by American author Dorothea Dix Activist, who lived between April 4, 1802 and July 17, 1887.

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

Dorothea Dix

I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

Dorothea Dix

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

Dorothea Dix

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

Dorothea Dix

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

Dorothea Dix

Those who do wrong very often think others are censuring them, when they are not even thought of.

Those who do wrong very often think others are censuring them, when they are not even thought of.

Dorothea Dix

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.

Dorothea Dix

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

Dorothea Dix

I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Dorothea Dix

'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

Dorothea Dix

Copyright © Softland 2016-2026. All rights reserved.