Abigail Adams – 8 Quotes

8 Quotes by Abigail Adams

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

– Abigail Adams

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

– Abigail Adams

I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

– Abigail Adams

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

– Abigail Adams

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

– Abigail Adams

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

– Abigail Adams

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’

– Abigail Adams

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

– Abigail Adams