Annie Besant quote: "Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree."

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
ANNIE BESANT

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own lim...
ANNIE BESANT

Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental ...
ANNIE BESANT

The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut ...
ANNIE BESANT

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivi...
ANNIE BESANT

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunde...
ANNIE BESANT

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
ANNIE BESANT

Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to...
ANNIE BESANT

Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rare...
ANNIE BESANT

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law d...
ANNIE BESANT

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect...
ANNIE BESANT

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and galla...
ANNIE BESANT

Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to ...
ANNIE BESANT

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical...
ANNIE BESANT

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of th...
ANNIE BESANT

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
ANNIE BESANT

Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led ...
ANNIE BESANT

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an imposs...
ANNIE BESANT

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man ...
ANNIE BESANT

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what ...
ANNIE BESANT

The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of f...
ANNIE BESANT

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the so...
ANNIE BESANT

Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed product...
ANNIE BESANT

As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more a...
ANNIE BESANT

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the genera...
ANNIE BESANT

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest ...
ANNIE BESANT

will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our han...
ANNIE BESANT

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest ...
ANNIE BESANT

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own lim...
ANNIE BESANT

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Ath...
ANNIE BESANT

Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person...
ANNIE BESANT

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags u...
ANNIE BESANT

In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally '...
ANNIE BESANT

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first c...
ANNIE BESANT

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upo...
ANNIE BESANT

The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission ...
ANNIE BESANT

We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a h...
ANNIE BESANT

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting d...
ANNIE BESANT

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mista...
ANNIE BESANT

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as re...
ANNIE BESANT

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, a...
ANNIE BESANT

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, ...
ANNIE BESANT

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into...
ANNIE BESANT

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain...
ANNIE BESANT

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashio...
ANNIE BESANT

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than th...
ANNIE BESANT

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the l...
ANNIE BESANT

The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the...
ANNIE BESANT

The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the phys...
ANNIE BESANT

The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its frui...
ANNIE BESANT

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in it...
ANNIE BESANT

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
ANNIE BESANT

The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into...
ANNIE BESANT

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds...
ANNIE BESANT

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling w...
ANNIE BESANT

I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Isla...
ANNIE BESANT

One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift re...
ANNIE BESANT

I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Isla...
ANNIE BESANT

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
ANNIE BESANT

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that i...
ANNIE BESANT

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
ANNIE BESANT

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth ...
ANNIE BESANT

There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what t...
ANNIE BESANT

Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be...
ANNIE BESANT

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates...
ANNE BESANT

There are some people in this world who can emotionally disconnect like a light switch. It’s like ...
ANNIE

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the s...
SIR WALTER BESANT

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect...
ANNIE LENNOX

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fas...
ANNIE LENNOX

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it ...
ANNIE LENNOX

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
ANNIE LENNOX

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
ANNIE LENNOX

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism...
ANNIE LENNOX

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like yo...
ANNIE LENNOX

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
ANNIE LENNOX

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody... as a mother, you ...
ANNIE LENNOX

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even h...
ANNIE LENNOX

Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
ANNIE LENNOX

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eig...
ANNIE LENNOX

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist a...
ANNIE LENNOX

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really...
ANNIE LENNOX

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
ANNIE LENNOX

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
ANNIE LENNOX

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everyb...
ANNIE LENNOX

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for l...
ANNIE LENNOX

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elem...
ANNIE LENNOX

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image ...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
ANNIE DILLARD

I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock...
ANNIE GOLDEN

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countri...
ANNIE LENNOX

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a po...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these mo...
ANNIE DILLARD

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and...
ANNIE PROULX

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our...
ANNIE DILLARD

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitemen...
ANNIE DILLARD

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memor...
ANNIE DILLARD

Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary prie...
ANNIE DILLARD

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plan...
ANNIE DILLARD

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
ANNIE DILLARD

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awak...
ANNIE DILLARD

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and ...
ANNIE DILLARD

Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
ANNIE DILLARD

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not k...
ANNIE DILLARD

Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast...
ANNIE DILLARD

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t.
ANNIE LENNOX

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird ...
ANNIE DILLARD

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten a...
ANNIE DILLARD

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive fai...
ANNIE DILLARD

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that b...
ANNIE DILLARD

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not k...
ANNIE DILLARD

She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
ANNIE DILLARD

I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroo...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambi...
ANNIE LENNOX

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly nor...
ANNIE PARISSE

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal wo...
ANNIE DILLARD

I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common threa...
ANNIE GOTTLIEB

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and add...
ANNIE LENNOX

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a f...
ANNIE DILLARD

I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I l...
ANNIE LENNOX

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's goin...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a...
ANNIE JACOBSEN

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she i...
ANNIE GOTTLIEB

I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten.
ANNIE ILONZEH

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
ANNIE DILLARD

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I g...
ANNIE LENNOX

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim t...
ANNIE DILLARD

Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, mak...
ANNIE DILLARD

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors do...
ANNIE POTTS

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towa...
ANNIE LENNOX

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewher...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of phot...
ANNIE LENNOX

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which ...
ANNIE DILLARD

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel...
ANNIE BRYANT

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
ANNIE PROULX

Your body is an intelligent organism; it knows how to heal itself.
ANNIE WILSON

My grandmother was musically gifted, and Annie recognized that gift. My grandmother did the same for...
ANNIE WOLAVER

My grandpa always says he likes music that still sounds good when you unplug it.
ANNIE WOLAVER

When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in ...
ANNIE WOLAVER

I was named after her. Being named after my great-grandmother shows how God works through the genera...
ANNIE WOLAVER

There are some in foster care and some in quarantine. The court said they would be released to us.
ANNIE STETLER

You were frustrated with her, you wanted to help her because this is a mental illness, this hoarding...
ANNIE STETLER

It's like the seventh level of Hell.
ANNIE STETLER

They were just running wild all over the property. It was worse than anything I have seen, worse tha...
ANNIE STETLER

It was horrific, I don't know how else to explain it.
ANNIE STETLER

We learned to feed off each other even more this season than last. Her moving up top just made my jo...
ANNIE STALZER

It was starting to get pretty frustrating toward the end of my sophomore year. Teams would put two a...
ANNIE STALZER

It's always difficult playing against a great team because you can't play your own game. You have to...
ANNIE STALZER

This is amazing, beating the No.1 team in the nation and getting to play for a state championship my...
ANNIE STALZER

That was big. It really gave us a little more confidence.
ANNIE STALZER

We've been playing so well. This is the perfect season! We couldn't ask for anything better.
ANNIE STALZER

People today are more fluid, and they don't want to be shackled with one color palette forever.
ANNIE SELKE

We call it tradition with a twist.
ANNIE SELKE

But you need to keep things in the same color family.
ANNIE SELKE

A big, bold pattern on the floor is more deceptive than one on the wall. There is no way of knowing ...
ANNIE SELKE

The best way to stimulate emancipation is to start to educate your sons to be humans instead of men,...
ANNIE SCHMIDT

The vieuw that women are surpressed I have never believed. They have a lot of power, not on a social...
ANNIE SCHMIDT

I think that men are more surpressed then women. At home their wife is boss, and seldom they are bos...
ANNIE SCHMIDT

Every story has a happy ending, you just need to know when to stop.
ANNIE SCHMIDT

A dutch novel is like a lame coitus
ANNIE SCHMIDT

I'm feeling pretty good right now, though I can never be totally satisfied with myself. But that's w...
ANNIE ROSS

Cranks was a huge success in London. It was Princess Margaret's favourite show, so she brought her s...
ANNIE ROSS

Jack Hylton said: 'I want you, I want you, but I can't offer you the part it's for a 35-year-old wom...
ANNIE ROSS

I asked the producer who else is doing the show. And he replied: 'Dorothy Paul, and, of course, McLe...
ANNIE ROSS

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay atten...
ANNIE PROULX

I found myself wondering what a gay person in such a masculine-oriented society did -- whether they ...
ANNIE PROULX

I found myself wondering what a gay person in such a masculine-oriented society did - whether they f...
ANNIE PROULX

Clapping wildly for bad stuff enhances this.
ANNIE PROULX

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay atten...
ANNIE PROULX

There are a lot of people who would build there if they'd change the flood zone. There are a lot of ...
ANNIE MCGEE

They don't care. If they cared, they wouldn't let what their parents worked so hard for fall down.
ANNIE MCGEE

You could buy anything there ... a full-service store with a meat market and everything. My dad prov...
ANNIE MCGEE

Every morning after all the absentee reports were in, he would leave walking and go to your house. I...
ANNIE MCGEE

I'm shy, yeah.There's a huge industry at the moment of celebrity and it's really evolved over the la...
ANNIE LENNOX

Catch me and let me dive under, for I want to swim in the pools of your eyes.
ANNIE LENNOX

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of...
ANNIE LENNOX

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. T...
ANNIE LENNOX

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
ANNIE LENNOX

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell wh...
ANNIE LENNOX

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws...
ANNIE LENNOX

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lo...
ANNIE LENNOX

Collectively, you are so powerful and strong you can do these things.
ANNIE LENNOX

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

For me to be in a room with those soldiers standing over there -- it's almost like you're there with...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

Private Pictures: photography from Arizona collections
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to ...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone ...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

It's interesting to me because she is empowered when she's dressed up,
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

It tells me my doctor did a good job.
ANNIE HOUGHTON

This is where I am. I am not leaving now. I know it might be hard for guys to focus. But that's not ...
ANNIE HOUGHTON

If I play my game, I think I can give some pretty hard matches.
ANNIE HOUGHTON

This feels so good because doctors said I might not be as good as I used to be. But I'm playing the ...
ANNIE HOUGHTON

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