Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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Eleanor RooseveltPreface to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961)
About Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady, diplomat and human rights champion who chaired the drafting of the UN declaration. (1884-1962)
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- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.You Learn by Living (1960)
- You must do the thing you think you cannot do.You Learn by Living (1960)
- It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.Voice of America broadcast (1951)
- The purpose of life... is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.Foreword to You Learn by Living (1960)
- I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.My Day newspaper column (1944)
- When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.My Day newspaper column (1940)
More quotes on learning and wisdom
- Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.C.S. Lewis
- Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.Walt Whitman
- Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.Anne Frank
- You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.Ray Bradbury
- Stuff your eyes with wonder.Ray Bradbury
- To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.George Orwell
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