Harriet Martineau Quotes

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Harriet Martineau

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

Harriet Martineau

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Harriet Martineau

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Harriet Martineau

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Harriet Martineau

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Harriet Martineau
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