Annie Besant Quotes

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

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

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

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not at...

The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without G...

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century ...

The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore ...

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

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

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

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way...

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of...

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

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

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

Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature...

Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands ...

Thought creates character.

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

There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the wo...

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

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

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

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

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

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

Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants...

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and n...

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

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakne...

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of I...