Agnes E. Meyer Quotes

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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
My growing realization that the idealized father of my childhood was a myth of my own making had a disastrous effect on me.... it is one thing to read a Dickens novel and quite another to have a Micawber in the family.

Agnes E. Meyer
We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

Agnes E. Meyer
What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

Agnes E. Meyer
The art of leadership is one which the wicked, as a rule, learn more quickly than the virtuous.

Agnes E. Meyer
Our government system has become so complex, so specialized, and so varied that it is slowly but surely being taken over by the trained specialist and the professional civil servant who are just as apt to obstruct progress as to further it...

Agnes E. Meyer
From the nineteenth century view of science as a god, the twentieth century has begun to see it as a devil. It behooves us now to understand that science is neither the one nor the other.

Agnes E. Meyer
We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities. The law of probability gives to natural and human sciences — to human experience as a whole — the unity of life we seek.

Agnes E. Meyer