Maria Mitchell Quotes

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell

Beauty, Happiness, Cosmetic

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
Maria Mitchell

General, Rule, Disappoint

A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
Maria Mitchell

Today, Learned, Young

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria Mitchell

Nature, God, Law

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
Maria Mitchell

Good, Sad, Woman

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
Maria Mitchell

Men, Courage, Travel

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
Maria Mitchell

Try, Universe, Stars

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
Maria Mitchell

Small, Large, Aids

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.
Maria Mitchell

Life, Best, Said

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell

Knowledge, Mind, Around

Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.
Maria Mitchell

Strong, Place, Growing

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
Maria Mitchell

Life, Meant, Indian

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
Maria Mitchell

Learning, Different, Stars

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.
Maria Mitchell

Through, Trying, Summer

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.
Maria Mitchell

Life, Love, Enough

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.
Maria Mitchell

Work, Again, Gone

I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Maria Mitchell

Country, Thoughts, Above

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
Maria Mitchell

Trying, Find, Matter

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.
Maria Mitchell

Work, Today, Hard

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.
Maria Mitchell

Cannot, Looking, Elements

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
Maria Mitchell

Music, Born, Incapable

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
Maria Mitchell

Society, Alone, Girl

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
Maria Mitchell

Heart, Sometimes, Learn

Question everything.
Maria Mitchell

Everything, Question

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell

Live, Tomorrow, Die

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 1, 1818

Died: June 28, 1889

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