Famous quotes by agnes e. meyer:
“I want to know and to be and to do.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“... no human being is master of his fate, and ... we are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“It is high time we realized that the havoc wrought in human life and ideals by a technological revolution and too long ignored has caught up with us.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“Next to our free political institutions, our free public-school system ranks as the greatest achievement of democratic life in America ...”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)